Is Updike Obsolete?

Posted by grouch on Jul 6, 2006 1:22 PM EDT
Silicon Valley's Metro; By Annalee Newitz 		Mail this story
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In a recent New York Times Book Review screed, the proverbial old-white-male author John Updike offers a Reader's Digest version of the argument against online publishing. For those of us who are genuinely puzzled by the animosity directed against efforts to digitize books (like Google Print or the Internet Archive's Open Library Project), Updike's short essay is quite instructive.

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