Dave Eggers speaks the myth of print's importance

Best selling author and all-around smart guy Dave Eggers (if you haven't read What is the What you have to -- now).

At a recent speech at the Author's Guild in Manhattan, Eggers said:

The written word—the love of it and the power of the written word—it hasn’t changed. It’s a matter of fostering it, fertilizing it, not giving up on it, and having faith. Don’t get down. 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.

Of course, the writer of a Splice Today article says that Eggers "has his head up his ass with regards to the decline of print media."