Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio delivered his Nobel lecture this weekend. In a portion of the speech focused on publishers, he said that “to provide nearly everyone on the planet with a liquid crystal display is utopian.” The Internet and “virtual communication” are “a good thing, but what would these astonishing inventions be worth, were it not for the teachings of written language and books?” He argued that publishers should spread books themselves, and translations of voices and small, throughout the world: “Culture on a global scale concerns us all. But it is above all the responsibility of readers–of publishers, in […]