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Originally Posted by wallcraft
Book readers tend to be older, which means they can generally afford to buy a few books/ebooks and did not grow up with the idea that copyrighted material is free on the internet. It isn't clear what will happen as the book buying cohort shifts towards the internet generations. An advantage book publishers have is that they already convinced readers to pay at multiple price points for the same material. However, in the long term I can't see any way for ebooks to be priced above $6-7 within 6 months of their release. We won't really know what ebooks "should" cost (i.e. their market price) until they dominate the market, which I would put at about 25% of a publisher's total revenue.
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I think that people will continue to buy paper books, just not as many, and electronic readers will come to completely dominate the world of reading for pleasure or in education, and paper books will be consigned to museums and specialized antique bookshops in a few decades. Printed books won't disappear, just loose their primacy.
And digital books will be sold online, and will be available for free also, because there is no stopping information in the digital era. And most people outside of the few countries who try to stop it with draconian punishments will choose to download them for free, except for those who have different ideals, have an excess of money or simply want to reward their favorite authors.
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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
most Americans don't steal.
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Neither do I.
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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
Pablo, in English, the word for people who live in the US is "Americans." You live in South America, so you are a South American. I live in North America, so I am also a North American.
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Both you and him are also Americans, because there are two Americas, the South and the North, so according to the traditions of the English language anyone living in either of them is American technically, even though the term is usually used for USA citizens. Anyone living in Asia is Asian, anyone living in Africa is African, so anyone living in either America is American.