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Thursday, November 20, 2014

2014: A good year for book lovers

For anybody concerned about the health of literary culture, 2014 offered encouraging signs of vigor. It was a year of surprises — including conflicts defused and alarming trends reversed.


The retailer Amazon, whose CEO Jeffrey P. Bezos owns The Washington Post, and the publisher ­Hachette finally reached a truce in November in their battle over pricing. And after a decade of fretting about the very survival of literature, it’s starting to feel reasonable to imagine a future in which bound books and their electronic brethren exist in harmony, each ­according to his ability, to each according to his need.


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