Bill Stout & Peter Miller

I went to a talk on Tuesday (2.2.10) in SF with the booksellers Bill Stout (of SF, also a publisher) and Peter Miller (of Seattle), both specialists in architecture and design. Although Bill out-talked Peter 6:1, Peter made the point that the iPad, etc. may end up turning everything ephemeral that's now in print into digital form. The analogy (noted later by Mark Coleman) is direct-to-DVD movies. That would leave print as "discernment," with publishers doing the heavy lifting. In other words, printed books and journals would be keepers. Everything else would be through-put. I liked this.

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