Paper Matters
Why paper still matters from an interview with Franzen on BN Reviews.
BNR: Your assessment of online fiction reading seems unduly harsh. Certain publications, including Narrative Magazine and FiveChapters.com , only publish online, and they do so largely for cost considerations: it's cheap to post articles and it's free to read them. And still they publish well-known fiction writers, not to mention up-and-coming writers who might not be able to earn publication via a more traditional route. If a writer can only get published online, does that really mean their work lacks "substance"? If you take an online story, print it out, and read it as a hard copy, does the story only then become substantive?
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