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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
How on earth did a post about NN's prognosis about the future of e-books slide into vinyl vs. CDs?
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I brought it up as an example of the economics of mass market retailing.
It can be argued that print books will endure as a high-priced niche product for diehards much as LPs did for audio.
Also, LPs are an example of a product that became uneconomic to sell long before the majority of the market was ready to abandon it, which I suspect is going to make Negroponte more correct that he otherwise would be.
Don't quite see it as off-topic, myself, but if it offends...