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We talked about various other things, and a few days later there appeared in The New York Times a by reporter Motoko Rich under the headline: "In E-Book Era, You Can't Even Judge a Cover." Her thesis was that as more and more people become accustomed to reading books on small screens, the importance of book jackets could rapidly diminish. As she wrote: "You can't tell a book by its cover if it doesn't have one."
Books still have covers, of course; even as the digital era gallops along, publishers continue to design and print jackets for their books, which then become the books' logos in their electronic versions. Yet if we do reach a time when the great majority of books are read on the screens of portable devices, something will be lost.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/books/31covers.html?scp=1&sq=motoko rich e-book&st=cse
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