Rick Moody on Kindle: Know Thy Enemy, and Thy Friend

Novelist Rick Moody published a kind of screed yesterday in Impose Magazine on his most notable gift from Christmas 2009: a Kindle. In true Moody style, it’s a single roaring paragraph, half condemnation, half reluctant falling-in-love. Along the way, Moody makes a couple of good points, and makes them from an author’s perspective, something we’re not getting much of in terms of eBooks.

He makes a clarifying observation on pricing: “Why is the Kindle my enemy, you ask? Because I mostly write books, and when the list price of my book is $27.95,

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