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Originally Posted by Graham Coulson
BUT…  is it just a short-term craze? … Will the mania cool? … Will a growing number of current devotees slip back to increasingly reading paper books, ultimately to then consign their once beloved e-reader to the recycling dump? Not me, I hear you cry! |
I doubt it. People have been reading off devices for a long time already. But only once the e-ink screens became affordable, did the general public start to notice it. And about everybody I spoke to/chatted with, mentioned that reading a pbook was something they would avoid, if they could help it.
It has gathered a momentum that can't be stopped. Even if the publishers would decide, en masse, to stop producing ebooks, the "scene" is now so advanced, that most people would know where else to find their ebooks.