Andrew Losowsky, senior books editor at the Huffington Post, recently observed that print culture--far from dying as a result of the digital revolution--is expanding, improving and engaging:
"I'm a believer that we're entering a golden age of print. When something loses its monopoly, it allows it to express what makes it special" (quoted in Print, 67.5, Oct. 2013, p. 46).
I could not agree more. I am in a (physical) bookstore at least once a week, and browse their online equivalents every day--and am deliciously overwhelmed by the choices, the inventive qualities, the lure and the blandishments of covers and fonts, the million voices whispering, illustrations leaping, every genre and new ones hybridized every week, deep and beautiful writing on worthy themes, cracking good yarns to liven up a subway ride, higher up and further in on entirely novel continents...
...and the old is refreshed and kept in print, and much that was lost is reclaimed inexpensively online...
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