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Print On Demand as a viable alternative to e-books, offering mass audiences paper books, is entirely impractical and will not happen. eBooks will replace printed books, and sooner than we think. Without book stores to sell paper books, how long before content that doesn't have mass appeal will disappear entirely from paper? And if the stores disappear, so with the paper books.
Premium editions -- gift books, illustrated books, specialty books -- these will survive for an extended time. Mass and trade editions are already on the watch list. Yes, paper will be around -- but not for the lion's share of books currently in print.
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