With the passing of 'The Book and Magazine Collector' because "there isn't the market for it anymore!!!!!!" I was pleased to see someone making a stand for real books. The following is an extract from the Evening News 24;
"Dozens of bookshops across the county have closed over the last decade as a result of the impact of online sales. Now a new national pressure group has been formed to do battle with the latest threat to the second-hand bookshop - the growing popularity of the e-book. Officials behind the newly formed Campaign for Real Books (Cambo) hope to do similar work for the printed word as Camra have done for real ale and the pub industry. The number of second-hand bookshops in Britain has halved over the last ten years and fears have been raised that the trend will continue if sales of electronic books outstrip sales of the printed word and schools, colleges, universities, and public libraries rely more on the new technology"
I have signed up to join. It is not that I don't enjoy technology, it gave me a job for 30 years, but do e-books bounce when falling out of a pocket scrambling up a hill, survive a ducking in the bath, still work after being run over by a car and too many more iniquities to mention - real books do.
