College and University Blog

E-Readers: Deciding to Bite the Hand

For most of my working life, I have earned a paycheck from the printed word. When I was an undergraduate in college I was a reporter for local newspapers. My first job out of college was as a book editor, and that opened up a whole new world to me in which I have written, edited, copyedited, reviewed, and indexed books. I now teach others how to write, and I continue to write on my own.

It seems that for as long as I