What worries me is that a load of shite has been talked about digitisation as being the new Gutenberg, but the fact is that Gutenberg led to books being put in shelves, and digitisation is taking books off shelves. If you start taking books off shelves then you are only going to find what you are looking for, which does not help those who do not know what they are looking for. Jeanette Winterson
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This quote by Alan Davies is a great example of the fact that those who have been out in front of the technology curve have been able to profit from it. In his case, he was one of the first publishers to see that e-books would become a viable alternative to print books. He has since built a multi-million dollar business out of selling e-books and related products.

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