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Originally Posted by pwjone1
The 50% number, and I've seen that too, is just wishful thinking on the part of some publishers. Evolve or perish. Just a matter of time.
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Trees don't grow to the sky. CDs are still 65% of the music market, with mp3s being only 35%. And mp3s have a standard format, no DRM, and have many other advantages over e-books (like the fact that all music requires some sort of player; paper books don't).
E-readers are great replacement for mass market paperbacks - but the farther you get away from that model (larger books, books with illustrations, maps, or pictures, textbooks, etc.), the less satisfactory the e-reading experience is.
And while $139 (or $99) is nothing to people who buy 50 books a year, it's still way to high for people who buy 2-3 books/year. And there are a lot of people like that.