MEMBER BLOG TAG: benjamin schrank
| Monday, May 4, 2009 2:44PM | | | | Passion for the Page | Tags: Francine Prose, Meir Shalev, Vera Williams, Benjamin Schrank, Mary Ann Hoberman, the Kindle
| | | | The event was "The Voyage of the Reader: Using Children's Books to Create a Lifelong Love of Reading" with participants Meir Shalev, Francine Prose, Vera Williams and Mary Ann Hoberman, moderated by Benjamin Schrank. The room at Instituto Cervantes crackled with two kinds of excitement. The first had to do with the extraordinary new world we live in, where the digital revolution has swept away old certainties about publishing and reading. The big question was whether or not authors would be able to hold onto young readers in the electronic world. Mary Ann Hoberman wondered what she was doing on the panel as she was clearly floored by a Wall Street Journal article, “How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write,” Ben... | | | | | |
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