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Originally Posted by SensualPoet
The facts on the ground simply don't support your views. Paperbacks are selling in substantially lower numbers -- unit sales and revenue -- in 2011 vs 2010 (the trend began in 2010) in the US market where ereaders are most heavily "penetrated". People haven't stopped buying books: they've started to replace buying paper with ebooks.
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Yeah. The trend did begin just last year. BUT there are also more people reading now because of ereaders. So they are selling more books total.
I still dont think paperbooks are going away. There are just too many people who refuse to read books on an electronic device.