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Books don't need a World Book Day
"The book is in extraordinarily robust health," says John Lanchester in the Telegraph, "so much so that I would argue that we don't really need a World Book Day. Endangered things need their special days, their Unesco moments, but the CD and DVD will go away long before the book does."
"If you don't believe me, ask Bill Gates, who is on record as saying that Blu-Ray, the next-generation dvd, is "the last physical format there will ever be" - all this stuff will be rendered obsolete by direct digital downloads.
"That won't happen to the book, for two reasons. First, because the book is so good at what it does. Second, as people read more and more, the value of the book as an object is going to go up."
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