Ray Bradbury to Yahoo: "To hell with the Internet!"

Sci Fi Wire tells us about Ray Bradbury's reaction to Yahoo's proposal to put a book of his in the net. Apparently his answer wasn't as polite as one could expect, and I quote "To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet." Apparently Mr. Bradbury has very strong feelings about the Internet. It took me some minutes to digest his reaction. Mr. Bradbury sees the Internet as a very real threat to the public libraries system. And perhaps with some reason. But the vehemence of his reaction led me to think a bit more about the subject. Mr. Bradbury is not like some old people who don't really know what the Internet is about. He actually does. I think that, in his mind, the Internet is an incarnation of the fire-fighters in "Fahrenheit 451". The Internet will ultimately be the match which will set fire to all the books. He seems to be afraid that books in their paper form will be consumed by it. That would explain why he feels so strongly about the subject. Although, and since psychiatry wasn't part of my academic life, I could be completely wrong. There's a very high probability of that.