Role of electronic media in enhancing the cultural value of literature & music

It may appear on first sight that widespread dissemination in electronic media has damaged the cause of culture by making it too accessible to probably undeserving hands. But in reality, it has only separated the grain from the chaff, as it were, of the Connoisseurs from the Philistines.

Even though the use of Kindle has brought books at negligible cost to readers, the discerning bibliophiles still prefer to possess & read beautiful copies (suited to their purse) of excellent books, whose appearance do justice to their contents.

Similarly, the availability of almost all music on-line, has only spurred the audiophiles to use it to find out their tastes & acquire the music of their choice either in Vinyl or CD & play it on as high-end equipment as they can afford.

This also supports the Hindu sensibility that Literature & Music are Divine, being the symbol of Goddess Saraswathi & hence should not be trivialised but treated with the utmost respect, by being bought by paying an adequate price & read or listened to with the fullest attention.