E-readers are uninspired. They're slabs of plastic with fiddly controls and display a badly-formatted, typographically impoverished rendering of a paper book. That's not the electronic book I want. I want a gorgeous physical object, with paper pages, that can transform into any story I choose, perfectly presented on the page.

Amazon is a corporation, not a philanthropic trust dedicated to the production of works of art and literature.

Digitisation was supposed to lead to a great democratisation of access to creative work.

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