Books = Brains: Some IMPORTANT Info You Won't Want to Miss

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Lindsey Leavitt blogged about  this editor and her fight to save the book industry.  Let's do it.  Together.  This holiday, let's buy a book instead of a gift card.  Let's buy one instead of slippers that the gift recipient's dog will wrestle off their feet and hide under a pile of snow.  Let's buy one to do our part in saving the book industry.  You know, after studying the eighteenth century and the alleged "rise of the novel," it scares me that books could become something that only the privileged class could afford, as it was when Richardson and Fielding wrote.  Talk of the "end of the publishing idustry" always gets me riled up, because I think about what might happen if people do not have books.  I think about the upper class being the only people who can afford books.  I think about the middle class and lower class missing out, being deprived of, and losing access to valuable knowledge.  I think about a pause in documented history.  If we are not producing books from the twenty-first century, how will future generations know what really happened during this time period?  Beyond text books, we need literature.

SCBWI has a saying, "READING IS POWER," and we must try our best to hold on to this strength.

A few years ago, I clipped a quote from the paper.  Unfortunately it is worn, and I can no longer read the author; but I thought you might appreciate it.
"A book, not a blog, or a radio talk show or an hour on 'Larry King Live,' is the true conduit to immortality.  It's the means by which one can influence historical judgments.  A book is solid, tangible, and that's a big deal in a world of electronic ephemera."