dialyn opened this issue on Mar 15, 2005 ยท 3 posts
dialyn posted Tue, 15 March 2005 at 12:19 PM
Attached Link: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050315/ennew_afp/afplifestylebooks_05031517434
Paris Book Fair to open amid global publishing boom PARIS (AFP) - The Paris Book Fair opens Friday amid a global boom in the publishing trade, flouting all the direst predictions of sci-fi writers that the advent of a digital world would spell the end of the written word. "Books are becoming more democratic. Fewer than nine percent of homes had no books in 1997, compared with more than a quarter in 1993," wrote French author Laurence Santantonios in his newly-published essay "As long as there are books". Rest of the article is at the link.
dido6 posted Wed, 16 March 2005 at 3:19 PM
Very cool! Thank you for sharing :D
deemarie posted Thu, 17 March 2005 at 6:51 AM
Waaaaaaaaaaaa - Now I want to go to Paris :) Hey - isn't Paris suppose to be amazing in the Springtime?? Thanks so much for the link dialyn :) Do you know of any book fairs or conventions that will be coming to upstate NY this summer? I know there are a ton in NY City - but that is a little too far to travel. Dee-Marie