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Just found out that Paul Coelho seems to be a blogger. On his blog he’s havin’ a conversation about the subject that he’s chosen to speak at the opening of the Frankfurt Book Fair: Will books survive?

I think he’s raising some interesting points that might scare a lot of people there. Therefor I find it gutsy and far ahead of his time that he’s discussing these subjects with his readers and the rest of the world in an open conversation.

“This is the question that the book fair is raising and in my speech I say that books will not disappear since there is free content flowing on the net. Said this, many fear sharing content while I think that a solution can be reached in which publishers, authors and agents will agree upon.

In my eyes, the wrong way is to be greedy and consider that content shouldn’t be shared and that internauts are mainly pirates. My speech – that will be posted here tomorrow – talks about this: that there are no pirates in internet but people eager to share content. “

I think this is an important issue for the future. Having talked about similar issues before in my opinion books will survive. People will always love objects.

But I also think that the regular reading device of future won’t be the paper. If the ePaper-iPod will finally come along it could change the way we access written content.