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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
If you mean "replace print entirely", I suspect never.
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No I don't mean entirely, like you I believe print will always be around. I'm simply interested in finding out when people think that the balance of words in digital format will outweigh that in print. |
That's actually two separate questions. Given the work of efforts like Project Gutenberg and the stuff issued under a Creative Commons license on top of what is available for sale in things like Amazon Kindle editions, there's an enormous amount in electronic format. There may be more
available than is currently in print in paper editions.
The more apposite question is how much is actually being
read in digital format, and right now I'd bet the vast majority is still consumed on paper. If I had to guess, in a decade of so that balance may shift in favor of electronic format, but a lot of dust has to settle around things like supported formats, access to content, and distribution of the tools required to read it.
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Like you I also don't care, what format a book is in as long as I can read it.
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I care in the sense that I'd like to see content available in the form the reader wishes, but I'm more concerned that people
do read, in any format. Way too many folks never learned to see reading as as
fun, and read only because they have to.
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Dennis