BOOKS need to be beautiful, says the latest winner of the Man Booker Prize, Julian Barnes, if they are to withstand the onslaught of the e-book.
Accepting the prize for his novel The Sense of an Ending, Barnes thanked the book's designer, Suzanne Dean, and said, ''Those of you who've seen my book - whatever you may think of its contents - will probably agree that it's a beautiful object. And if the physical book, as we've come to call it, is to resist the challenge of the e-book, it has to look like something worth buying and worth keeping.''
Barnes finally won the £50,000 ($A77,000) prize after having been shortlisted three previous times and following a bitter controversy over this year's shortlist, which was criticised as being too populist for focusing on ''readability''.
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The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes. 
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