Dave Eggers says he'll send you an e-mail message of hope

Popular writer and publisher Dave Eggers of McSweeney's magazine has an irresistible offer, made at a New York Authors Guild event held in his honour earlier this week. He told people who were worried about the so-called "death of print" that he would e-mail them to convince them they are wrong, to worry that is.

I actually have established an e-mail address, deggers@826national.org – if you want to take it down – if you are ever feeling down, if you are ever despairing, if you ever think publishing is dying or print is dying or books are dying or newspapers are dying (the next issue of McSweeney’s will be a newspaper – we’re going to prove that it can make it. It comes out in September). If you ever have any doubt, e-mail me, and I will buck you up and prove to you that you’re wrong.

[Thanks to Quill & Quire for this.]