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Cognitive scientist at Harvard.

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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Aug 6

    Book Publishing: Despite threats from video, Amazon, and the Web, business is thriving. (Ebook sales, despite panic that they're replacing paper, have declined, though audio is way up.) http://authornews.penguinrandomhouse.com/book-publishing-a-thriving-business/?ref=PRH31DC42C11CC5&linkid=PRH31DC42C11CC5&cdi=321A47AFEE754547E0534FD66B0AE227&template_id=6179&aid=randohouseinc45523-20 …

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      2. inanis‏ @AnHonestNobody Aug 7
        Replying to @sapinker

        People love to be told stories. It's the oldest form of entertainment, you know? Audiobooks are wonderful.

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      3. ⠠⠚⠑⠝⠝⠊⠋⠑⠗ ⠠⠚ ⠠⠍⠑⠙⠊⠝⠁‏ @jenniferjmedina Aug 7
        Replying to @AnHonestNobody @sapinker

        Tell me more...

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      4. inanis‏ @AnHonestNobody Aug 7
        Replying to @jenniferjmedina @sapinker

        I see what you did there

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      2. Brian Ward‏ @sumoward Aug 6
        Replying to @sapinker

        Consumers of books spread accross the available media. I happily buy print, ebooks and audio. Sometimes the same work in two formats. As an example, Pickity's Capital in the all 3. Print in the house. Ebook traveling. Audio commuting.

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      3. Conor Duffy‏ @conorduffy_7 Aug 6
        Replying to @sumoward @sapinker

        I'm similar. Audible, Kindle and print, depending on the book.

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      2. Noel Russell‏ @rainmar7 Aug 6
        Replying to @sapinker

        I LOVE @audible_com and love the convenience and eye friendliness of @AmazonKindle, but you just can’t show how cool you are with ebooks.

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      3. Christo Koenig‏ @ChristoKoenig Aug 6
        Replying to @rainmar7 @sapinker and

        Exactly... how will the ladies know that I'm a bad boy if they can't see I'm reading Machiavelli at a glance?

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      1. Tobias Schumann‏ @0x404_tobi Aug 6
        Replying to @sapinker

        Books 😍pic.twitter.com/FK9YKv1epZ

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      2. gary mulhearn‏ @gmulhearn Aug 6
        Replying to @sapinker

        I just finished ENLIGHTMENT. Did not want it to end. I loved it.

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      3. gary mulhearn‏ @gmulhearn Aug 6
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        commend your great research put into prose

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      1. KVL‏ @kvucinaljubetic Aug 6
        Replying to @sapinker

        I rather to read on paper... I have Kindle, but the sensation is not the same. It feels like I read something that later can’t remember...

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      1. Martin Deck‏ @ZonkDeck Aug 6
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        One of the reasons that e-book sales are down is because the publishers won the ability to set e-book prices, defeating Amazon's $9.99 pricing strategy.

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      1. Kitt Johnson‏ @KittJohnson_ Aug 6
        Replying to @sapinker

        I wonder why. My kindle incentivises me to read much more

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      1. Stuart Rojstaczer‏ @StuartEtc Aug 6
        Replying to @sapinker

        n.b. Fiction sales are in major decline. We are becoming a nation of boors who reflexively dismiss and revile the power of the imagination.

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      1. RicGlow  🇨🇦‏ @OttawaRic Aug 6
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        Hard for an author to autograph an eBook.

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      1. Tetsuyuki Tsugomori‏ @SiDarth_vaderr Aug 6
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        Strange.

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