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When to web publish, when to print? I often find myself talking to friends at Arena about print versus the web. As I write this I am literally surrounded by books, comforting me as I look at them now, shelf by shelf, covers of different sizes, colours, typefaces, and languages all looking out to be recognised, their place in my life recalled. I love the physicality of books, their smell and texture and look, their adaptability and attractiveness as a mature technology, and the lookability of them. I like the convenience of magazines and newspapers, their ready-to-go-ness, and the fact that twenty five years later, I can still pick up and smell the print on something a friend or I once wrote, and remember a sliver of exactly what was going on in my life, half a lifetime ago.
The web of course does none of these things, but to the chagrin of my print editor friends, and my own regret, most of what I write these days either goes straight onto the web, or even when it's in print, I push for a web version almost immediately. If I look at my own publications website, (the embarrassingly narcissistic sort that is...
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