Do E-Readers Make it Harder to Ban Books?

September 27, 2011

As e-books continue to grow in popularity, there’s a seemingly unwinnable debate over which is better: digital books or their paper-based counterparts. Both have their advantages and it’ll likely be quite awhile before paper books come close to disappearing. In addition all of the benefits that e-books bring, is it possible that they may also make it more difficult for books to be banned in the future?

Out of the American Library Association’s top 10 most-banned books of last year, all but three of them are available for purchase from Amazon’s Kindle Store, notes a blog post from Beyond Black Friday.

Article source: RRW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/BFuGB3OQDXI/e-readers_harder_to_ban_books.php

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