Bookish Diversions: Do Audiobooks Count?
A Tale of Two Devices, Task Stacking, But Is It Really Reading? Plus: The Cigar Rollers’ Favorite Pastime
¶ A tale of two devices. Two digital devices debuted in 2007. One promised to revolutionize publishing but didn’t; the other made no such promises but still could.
When Jeff Bezos launched Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader, publishing pundits said it would completely upend the industry as digital distribution had done for music. Publishing would surely follow…
