I just found an amusing article. Anyone who has suffered through my ramblings about the dated format of literature should really appreciate this:

To howls of indignation from literary purists, a leading publishing house is slimming down some of the world’s greatest novels. Tolstoy, Dickens and Thackeray would not have agreed with the view that 40 percent of Anna Karenina, David Copperfield and Vanity Fair are mere “padding�, but Orion Books believes that modern readers will welcome the shorter versions.

I disagree with their method as they’re trying to solve the wrong problem, like strapping wheels and an engine to a horse to make it faster. But as I’ve said for years, I think we definitely are ready for a new “book” format.

On a related note, I find it fascinating that a publisher is trying to argue that they can compress a message without destroying the integrity. Something tells me their measurements might be a bit loose, if quantitative at all.