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Originally Posted by jbcohen
What can we conclude about the recent attacks on electronic books from such places as wired.com and Andy Rooney and others?
Can you see any parallels between the recent resistance to electronic books and previous innovations such as the movement from tapes to CDs and CDs to MP3s and still earlier is the move from type writters to word processors?
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I see more of a parallel to the move from LPs to CDs, but that could just be my age!! There is a certain hard core fanaticism and nostaligia associated with LPs in the audiophile communtity, just as there is in print books in a reading community. Those who express those views typically do so by bashing the new kid on the block, not by pointing out the virtues of the older format, and the older formats do have some virtues. A cd will never sound as good as a new LP played back on really good equipment, just as an ebook will never feel like a new leather bound edition of your favorite book. But progress is progress, for the most part the average person finds the CD inperceptible in sound quality to the new LP and doesn't really care about holding a paper book, but there are those that do.