Comments on: Half Life: the Continuting Decay of Short SF http://www.alattimore.com/archives/270 Ranting about the state of the Future for over 3 years. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:14:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: robert eggleton http://www.alattimore.com/archives/270#comment-86 robert eggleton Sat, 22 Jul 2006 10:55:19 +0000 http://www.alattimore.com/archives/270#comment-86 The actual issue is the survival of written vs. the instant gratification provided by movies and TV. The hope for word is with the commercialism of electronic readers that allow, for example, a novel to be taken with one to places easier and more cool than a paperback. Consumers have been trained to expect availability of getting off. Paperback novels, regardless, are boring and too burdensome. If the industry cannot stimulate a trend to electronic regarless of biases against it, increasingly book stores will close. This will discourage creativity, and at some point, only remakes of past successful plots will be produced -- boring Batman. Robert Eggleton "Rarity from the Hollow" The actual issue is the survival of written vs. the instant gratification provided by movies and TV. The hope for word is with the commercialism of electronic readers that allow, for example, a novel to be taken with one to places easier and more cool than a paperback. Consumers have been trained to expect availability of getting off. Paperback novels, regardless, are boring and too burdensome. If the industry cannot stimulate a trend to electronic regarless of biases against it, increasingly book stores will close. This will discourage creativity, and at some point, only remakes of past successful plots will be produced — boring Batman.

Robert Eggleton
"Rarity from the Hollow"

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