Frankfurt Book Fair going digital

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It may seem unlikely, but it has been extremely hard to find someone actually reading a book at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair. Even the many eBook reading devices on show were looked at in order to compare technologies, and not to leaf through a text. The one device that definitely seemed to absorb exhibitors as much as their guests, was — the laptop. Not one exhibition booth was without its panoply of handhelds, notebooks, iPad tablets and laptops, not one presentation without the use of a computer, not one publisher or agent or distributor or retailer or printer or journalist without their laptop. Or two. Is it the laptop, and not the eBook, which is actually replacing the printed book? ...cont´d

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