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Actually,this "fundamental" question isn't a question at all-movies didn't replace books.
But emails ARE driving out faxes, and -more gradually- first class mail, and no one has sent a telegram in quite some time.
Ebooks are simply highly formatted HTML documents. Its pretty clear that they can do much more with this form factor.
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Books just tell a story. So do movies. It's clear that movies can tell a story with far more enhancements than books can.
Yet they have not replaced books. Because people want to *read*.
Games won't satisfy people's desire to *read*. Neither will apps. People will, of course, play games and use apps - just like they watch movies and TV. But they won't replace reading.
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Its also clear that ebooks in their present form can't command much in terms of price-indeed, less and and less , if we follow the reactions on this forum ($9.99 for something that offers several hours in entertainment-Unconscionable!! ).
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This is not clear at all, despite what the the MR echo chamber says. E-book sales are through the roof. E-book revenue is through the roof. E-book profits are through the roof. Random House recently attributed its 6% rise in profits to e-books.
The fact is that e-books are selling like hotcakes, and that agency pricing has not slowed the adoption of e-books.
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Publishers will want to offer much more in terms of value added, in order to command a higher price, and the way to do it is to offer much more than formatted text -some kind of enhanced UX-a game or app like UX.
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They can charge more for "enhanced books," but I don't think that many people will be buying them.
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Mean while as the younger generation grows up with this enhanced UX as normal , only us old fogies will be clinging to our text files. Eventually, the text file ebook goes the way of the telegram and the fax. A possible future?
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No. Just like movies didn't replace books. *Exactly like* how movies didn't replace books.