A classic example of old and new

I was browsing around the web and came across an article that struck me as a clear example of the coming conflict between old-school and cutting edge technology.

John Scalzi is a successful novelist of science fiction, as well as having written some non-fiction titles. In his recent blog post, he mentions how he was sent an advanced review copy (or ARC as they're called) by EOS. The problem: it was a request to read the electronic copy of the novel.  His response: no thank you. Then he created a blog post titled, "eARCs: Big Fat Publicity Fail."

If you read his post, linked above, you'll find he was quite perturbed they would ask him to go so far out of his way in order to review one of their books.

I predict plenty more of this in the coming years.  The old: those who refuse to let go of the feel of a good book in our hands... and the new: fans of electronic reading.  Until ebook readers have been lowered in cost to the sub-$100 dollar range, I don't foresee them being as abundant as some would like.