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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Speaking of the people behind the paper book, did we know that when we bought digital cameras that we'd be singing the death knoll for the 35mm film? Well, we did and it's now dead. So, please buy more eBooks and help kill off the pBook. If the pBook is what's causing the agency model because the publishers don't want hardcover sales to suffer, let's help kill off the paper books and make eBooks reasonably priced once again.
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Death-of-pbooks is a lot farther away. Cameras were always a high-tech mostly-luxury item; books haven't been that for more than a hundred years.
The places on
this map of the earth at night that are dark is where ebooks won't be taking over anytime soon. Like, not likely in the next century. And yes, pbook sales in a lot of those areas are pretty low--but not nonexistent, unlike camera sales in most of those areas.
Professional and semi-pro photographers always had an interest in manipulating/editing the pictures. One of the reasons digital cameras took off is that the pictures themselves could be manipulated a lot easier than film; editing ebooks, other than fixing bad formatting or metadata, is rare. There's no great incentive for most book-buyers to move to digital books, not the way there was for camera-users to move to digital photographs.