STEPHEN FERRY, FROM, “VIOLENTOLOGY: A MANUAL OF THE COLUMBIAN CONFLICT,” PUBLISHED BY UMBRAGE
EDITIONS (VIOLENTOLOGY, SOLDIERS, GUNSHOT); CHRIS WARE/ PANTHEON (“BUILDING STORIES” ILLUSTRATION)
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around the world, and unlimited
in supply. For these reasons and
more, the growth in American ebook usage has been swift and inevitable. Earlier this year, Amazon
released figures saying that, for
every 100 physical books sold on
its site, it had sold 114 ebooks.
BOOKS
But print is fighting back. Now
that physical books have lost their
monopoly on long-form storytelling, they aren’t disappearing. Instead, booksellers, publishers and
readers are taking a closer look
at why we like books at all—for
many, that feeling of loss has provided an opportunity.
Instead of killing physical
books, ebooks have actually encouraged a new level of fetishization of the printed page. Beautifully made editions that sit as
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Violentology
(left) had its
pages printed
on the press
of a legendary
newspaper.
Building
Stories
(right) is
a box of
14 graphic
novels that
all come in
different
shapes and
sizes.