WTF?
There used to be an ad campaign for a florist with the tag line “Say it with flowers.” I always hated it. When relationships are getting rocky, or when you need to express something good, my view is, “Say it with words.” Do the job properly.
One of the most wonderful things about books, is that they’re constructed from words. Words, handled well and chosen with care, are the only way to express an idea or an emotion with any degree of subtlety and finesse.
Which is sad for e-books because I have no doubt that e-books will evolve into multimedia medleys with text playing a smaller and smaller part in the mix.
People will see this as providing content that is suitable to the medium and which exploits the capabilities of the device. But as e-books move farther and farther away from plain text content, they will also lose much of what makes a book worth reading. The words.
