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Originally Posted by jasonkchapman
The problem with this is that it only works right now, while e-books are a tiny part of the market and p-books dominate. What happens in the future, when e-books dominate? What happens currently when the author's books are only available as e-books and there are no p-books?
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In which future? The one with the personal flying cars
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I still do not understand why it is a given that because say music is going digital, and movies are going digital, books will go the same way? Music and movies were digital before the mp3's and avi's and the like, they just were cd's and dvd's so the transition was natural.
I just do not see books going all digital in the foreseeable future for many reasons. There will be more e-books, sure, they may increase in market share, sure, though even there I am curious if they will get to 10% in the next 5-10 years.
Right now and for the foreseeable future the big problem for most published authors is obscurity not piracy, while for most people wanting to be authors is "ability to be published" and in both respects e-books and the Net are huge helps if handled properly.