It’s in the air somewhere.’īut the author has now been convinced otherwise, with his American publisher Simon & Schuster announcing that it was releasing the first ever ebook of Fahrenheit 451, a novel which has sold more than 10m copies since it was first published in 1953 and in which Bradbury predicts a dystopian future where books are burned and reading banned.” To hell with you and to hell with the internet. ‘They wanted to put a book of mine on Yahoo! You know what I told them? To hell with you. In an interview … he told the paper that he had been contacted by Yahoo eight weeks earlier. “In the past Bradbury has said that ebooks ‘smell like burned fuel’, telling the New York Times in 2009 that ‘the internet is a big distraction’. Ray Bradbury himself was against ebooks at first, saying that they were too distracting. A world without books and the resulting lack of readily available knowledge and history is bleak indeed. The novel is about a future in which most books have been burned in order to keep the public “happy”. Ray Bradbury’s classic dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 has recently been released as an ebook by Simon & Schuster (available online Fahrenheit 451 ebook).
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