Imagine that you had a Magic Wine
Glass
Imagine that you had a magic wine glass, that would
instantly fill up whenever you pushed a button that was conveniently located on
the glass. The wine might come from
anywhere in the world – from a great vineyard in France to a small operation
in Argentina. Indeed, it might even come from a neighbor’s saskatoon
berry orchard. Whatever your whim, there
was probably a wine to satisfy it.
Not only that, but you could get a small sample of that wine
for free, before making your purchase.
And in most cases, the wine was less expensive than wine you purchased
from a grocery or liquor store. And as
far as the bottle goes – no deposit, no return since there is no bottle.
It would be hard for a liquor store to compete with
that. Sure, they would tell you that
their buyers provided curation, culling
down the list of wines that you might buy to a precious few that they had personally
vetted for you. They might also say that
their clerks provided an invaluable service, advising you of the best wines to
go with each meal. They might even tell
you that the sound of the clinking bottle and smell of the cork were vital
parts of the wine drinking experience. Last,
but not least, they would tell you that a shelf full of wine bottles (full and
empty) was the sign of a cultured person.
The reality was that you drove to the liquor store, fighting
traffic in order to get to a location with a limited selection of wines, many
of which you didn’t really care for.
More often than not, you dealt with a poorly paid, harried and harassed
clerk who didn’t really care for wine at all.
And finally, you hauled heavy bottles home, then hauled them somewhere
else to dispose of them once they were empty.
Well, that’s a long segue into the difference between the
kindle (or kobo) ebook and the paper book at the bookstore. It seems hard to believe that the wine store
could long compete with the magic wine glass and it seems hard to believe that
the paper bookstore can long compete with online ebook store.
Speaking of wine, you might enjoy a glass of Sickle Island
Red from the Drowned Planet of Terra
Book One:
http://www.amazon.com/Kati-Terra-Book-One-ebook/dp/B00811WVXO
Or perhaps one of the
Carmack Estate wines from the planet of Vultaire of Kati of Terra Book Two:
Or a glass of Galactic Gardens White Wine with Sarah and
Coryn on Space Station RES of The Witches Stones:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Witches-Stones-Book-ebook/dp/B008PNIRP4
I swear on a case of Puligny Montrachet, I did NOT see this before my own oenophilic post.
ReplyDeleteI have no doubt of that - it's common enough for the same metaphor to occur to people independently. Your post was more about the content of the wine, while mine was about the delivery system. It's always nice to see people enjoying both wine and books.
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