The hullabaloo around the purported death of the printed book is reaching a fevered pitch—again. Moveable type was going to do the book in, the paperback assured its demise and now we imagine the e-book as the one in the Grim Reaper’s robes. All this hand wringing is a sign of affection, to be sure; no one is losing sleep over the disappearance of the eight-track…
Alana Wilcox
Alana Wilcox is the editorial director of Coach House Books. She is a co-founding editor of the uTOpia series of books about Toronto and the author of a novel, A Grammar of Endings (Mercury Press, 2000).