Geek News: Drive to multimedia leads to mediocrity

“Electronic books are better than paper books. They must be; they have sound and video. Paper books are going the way of the dinosaurs. Don’t expect them to be around for long.”

Have you heard this nonsense recently? I seem to be running into it all the time. People keep asking me why my books aren’t published “online.” I’ve even had people tell me they should be published online, as though these people, who invariably don’t work in the book business, know how to sell books better than my publishers.

A couple of years ago, I wrote a book called “The Complete…