18 August 2014
Out of Print is a film documentary by Vivienne Roumani about the current state-of-affairs in the book business and the culture of reading in America, circa 2013. The film, narrated by Meryl Streep, debuted in January at the Digital Book World conference in New York and is now available to order on DVD.
The film is a bit of a high-wire act completed with the precision and flair of a Wallenda. At any point this documentary could have fallen into a "two-camps" debate between Amazon's founder and CEO Jeff Bezos (who does play the "mad-genius-who-is-only-out-to-help-you" part well) and Scott Turow (who sets aside his best-selling author hat to wear that of the head of the Author's Guild, thus becoming Amazon's mortal enemy).
