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Originally Posted by CazMar
The actual publishers will just sell books whether they are electronic or paper, yes you are right, it's the printers that will feel the pinch. Many years ago we virtually lost our printing industry in Australia - I still know printers who had to retire early or retrain into other careers. But I guess these changes are part of progress and will just happen. And a few more trees left standing won't do the world any harm!
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A journal that my school used to put out was typeset by hand (i.e., he set the *individual letters up* in a frame) into the 90's well after everyone else was using computers. The people at the university in charge of the journal didn't want to fire the guy who did the printing (he was in his 70's), so they kept having it be manually typeset until the guy retired.