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Re: Is this why paper books will never disappear? (a bit long)
Subject:Re: Is this why paper books will never disappear? (a bit long) From:"Bonni J. Graham" <bgraham -at- ELECTRICITI -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 22 Jul 1994 01:41:52 PST
As I used to tell an employer who was trying to eliminate the book, "Yeah,
right. You're going to tell *librarians*, 'Thank you for your $10,000 --
here's your disk'? I think not..." (Of course this was before CD-ROM was a
big deal, but I still don't think it's changed.
Bonni Graham
Manual Labour
Director, Region 8 Conference
bgraham -at- electriciti -dot- com
