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Books and Literature - Yahoo! News Search Results Do E-Books Threaten Democracy? Do digital books threaten our democracy? Depends on who you ask. eBooks are on trial once again. This time, they represent nothing short of an existential threat to democracy itself. In the prosecutor's corner we have novelist Jonathan Franzen, playing the role of 'bookservative' and decrying the rise of these anti-democratic digital Book folks predicted speed-reading explosion What will the book world be like in the 21st Century? How will books be published and what will be their contents? Will literature concern itself with much the same subjects as it does today? What will plays be like and the theater? Books: Newbery and Caldecott prizes for U.S. children’s literature awarded This year’s winners of the top U.S. prizes in children’s literature were honoured this week for stories of resilience over the most everyday troubles: a boy grounded by his parents, a dog that loses its favourite toy. |