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While it remains uncertain whether the intelligent general reader still exists, Americans do seem to be reading—just, perhaps, via new media. In March 2009, Amazon launched the Kindle DX, its latest version of an electronic platform for digital media and e-books. The company reported that for those books available on the Kindle, sales were already at 35% of the same editions in print. And the Google Book Search Project, which has made over 10 million out-of-copyright titles available online, was able to do so at an estimated cost of $5 million, according...
...cover our costs. The Press doesn’t have one yet that is online only. If someone else has one that is online only, I don’t know what that is,” she says, pointing to the considerable expenses of publishing a book such as “Literary History,” with its multitude of contributors...
According to Donnelly and Waters, there are plans to adapt the work into e-book format, though none have emerged for an online version. However, for Waters and Sollors, the decision to create “Literary History” as a book, first and foremost, was a natural one. According to Kaufman, the obvious reason behind such a move is that the well-respected academics and published authors in the group of contributors are part of a culture that holds printed editions in higher esteem than Internet versions...
Contributors have echoed this sentiment. “The book has a particular life form that remains very important, that hasn’t been completely substituted by the more fleeting Wikipedia-like existence of Internet resources,” says Sollors, who also speculated that print and online editions need not be mutually exclusive. “But let the book live as a book for a bit,” he says...
...editors and the contributors do recognize the benefits of digitization, although they reason that the book needs to be in print for a few years before HU Press can recoup its costs and even begin to consider an online edition...