Bradbury to allow e-book.

Dallas Morning News | Nov. 30, 2011 | Syndicated

[ixtl]

According to an article i the Dallas Morning News this AM, Ray Bradbury has broken his vow to never allow one of his books to be 'published' in electronic media. Per the article, "Farenheit 451" will be releaed in e-book format some time early next year. Bradbury, who is 91, has repeatedly expressed his love of physical books, and his disdain for electronic media and the Intenet.

[GeronL]

Just and try and burn a byte!

[writer33]

It’s a generational thing.

[NakedRampage]

When the SHTF you're not going to have the power to charge up your little e-reader.

My paper books never run outta' juice.

[Signalman]

Since I got my Kindle Keyboard last week, I’m halfway through my first book (The Great Crash Ahead, by Harry S. Dent Jr.) and I doubt if I will ever buy a “physical” book again.

[LouD]

I love reading physical books, too. But there is something to be said for the cluttered bookcase by the bed being replaced with a pair of Kindles, not to mention traveling with a few hundred books to read in a package the size of a single thin paperback.

[GeronL]

hhhmmm..... pedal power!

Actually you can get crank-powered rechargers for cell phones and stuff.

[GeronL]

I like the physical ones too, but I like choices too

[NakedRampage]

Can you??? Uh-oh, maybe I’m not as ready as I thought...

[Fester Chugabrew]

You’ll only be able to read it on a Blackbury.

[GeronL]

;p;/ I have an old crank-power radio. The TV channels don’t work, because TV is all digital now... the cell phone chargers won’t work on modern cell phones. lol. At least I can still get AM and FM on the thing.

[GeronL]

try carrying hundreds of paperbacks in your bugout backpack

[OldMissileer]

There is NOTHING more comfortable than to sit in my favorite chair, a cup of coffee on the side table, and the feel of a real book in my hand as I read.

[TigersEye]

Well played.

[writer33]

There is NOTHING more comfortable than to sit in my favorite chair, a cup of coffee on the side table, and the feel of a real book in my hand as I read.

This is the one reason that paper books will never go out of fashion. In the early days, ebooks were considered jokes. Now, with the Kindle, not so anymore.

[Chipper]

I would have agreed before I got my iPad. Now I look at a full 12’x8’ wall of books, and numerous other books scattered around and wish I had most all of them on here. Less clutter, I have enough of that already:-)

[KarlInOhio]

Watch out. Bradbury's ebook will have the Montag virus which will cause your Kindle's battery to short out, catch on fire and burn all your ebooks at once.

[Mad Dawgg]

Does anyone else find it ironic that a writer of Science Fiction “SHUNS” new technology?

[eggman]

I seem to recall reading Something Wicked This Way Comes some years ago downloaded from the public library on a Palm Pilot. Maybe it was just some carnival trick conjured up by Mr. Dark.

[MacMattico]

I like paper books: the feel, the smell of the ink, and I'm over 50 years younger than Bradbury! Plus If there is a way, and I am on an iPad right now, to destroy information stored on an electronic devise I will find it! I have two books I've read on the iPad and it was ok, but if I had 150 or so books on here or a kindle, I'd find some weird way to wipe them all out of existence and/or any account that went with them. I have a tendency to do that!