Stephen Downes

CBC Radio ran a bit yesterday or the day before lamenting the fact that people no longer go to movies, and it reminds me of this item lamenting the lack of people reading books. Why would we support these bad old commercial models? My reaction is similar to Steven Krause's: who cares? "In my view," he writes "the best movies and streaming media today are every bit as 'literary' as texts that happen to be printed on paper. And our postliterate world (which I think we entered long ago) has not resulted in the 'end of reading' at all." I read tons, most of it for fun. But books on paper? No.