National Public Radio aired a fascinating story yesterday about the user-data generated by e-reading devices. It’s not hard for publishers (and authors) to track whether you finish a book–and even, if you didn’t, how many pages you read before you quit. This kind of information is clearly useful, and “misuseful.” Will our literature become as market-driven as our politics? Will a poetry collection be focus-group-tested prior to publication?
– Jeff
