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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
I do know, however, that CD's are 60% of music revenues, and have declined for most of the past decade. Online song downloads continue to rise.
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Recorded music always required an extra device to experience. Record player, cassette deck, CD player, computer, MP3 player... people always expected to need to buy a music player, and arrange their music purchase to be compatible with that player.
Books, however, were self-contained until recently. People didn't/don't expect to buy "book reader" separate from "books." It will take much longer for the concept of "book reader" to find its way into the majority of households--and it will be contingent on book readers that are a lot more physically robust, and able to display a lot more types of content well. (Textbooks, magazines, newspapers in addition to novels.)
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Originally Posted by emellaich
It appears that I'm missing something here, but why? I don't understand the need for color in e-books?
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As soon as you get away from novels, color can be important. Textbooks & newspapers with color photos, science books with charts or graphs, design books with color swatches, cookbooks or instruction manuals with color-coded tags.