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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
I was arguing about this with someone last year. He was zealously defending ebooks and saying that books would disappear since everything would be electronic. You just proved me what I was defending. There will always be a market of specialty books; rarities, authographed material, etc.
What will really be needed, is a definition of what should still be offered in print. But I agree that the paper back novel is doomed.
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Oh, hell yes. In fact, I do not for one minute believe that hardbacked books will be entirely elminated by ebooks. Just like there was an incredible fuss made when Ted Turner started colorzing old black and white films. There are some things that are meant to be left as close to their original form as possible. Granted, with old films, they had to be moved onto different media in order to save them (since the old film stock was disintigating) ... but as long as they can print HC books,and long as the paper holds together on old books, there will be people who will want a "book" in that format.
I love love love ebooks .... I also happen to love the look of a real live library with books on the shelf, or the smell of a used books store. Just because you embrace one technology doesn't always mean you entirely abandon another.