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I think some people have this silly need to launch in the airwaves these prophetical soundbites just to get noticed. Paper books are not going to disappear.
There are millions of books being produced right now and will be in the next years. Besides there are even more books resting in bookshelves in private homes and second hand bookstores. These will remain here for a long time. Widespread use of ebooks presupposes a widespread use of ereaders, and that will still take some time to happen. Even when that happens there will be a not irrelevant portion of the market that will resist using ereaders. Paper books have a enormous emotional and affective capital in our culture and that resists very well to time.
Ebooks have still a long way to go to until they are so omnipresent, versatile and durable than a paperbook. They are getting there but the same way that the internet would kill TV or TV would kill radio and so on, ebooks will create an option to paperbooks, not replace them.
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