Forbes on Books

A Forbes.com video on how the Internet affects the book publishing industry examines the pitfalls and possibilities. The interview (if you can survive the ads at the beginning) mentions Wikipedia and networked books. It's part of a comprehensive look at books that the magazine's website took toward the end of last year at Books - Forbes.com. It cheerily concludes that:

People are reading more, not less. The Internet is fueling literacy. Giving books away online increases off-line readership. New forms of expression--wikis, networked books--are blossoming in a digital hothouse.

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