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Originally Posted by Justin Nemo
I've had this conversation with a dear friend of mine. She says she could never have a Kindle because she likes to feel the paper in her two hands as she turns the pages. (I think it's more to do with getting off on the musty smell of old books myself). Now I have a Kindle in a nice little leather case and to me that is like holding a book. It's a lot easier in many ways and my father who has arthritis found it really hard to hold paper books.
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Here you're talking about the reader experience. Nearly all those readers who say they "could never have a Kindle" because they like "to feel the paper" have never seriously used a recent eReader. I think that the vast majority (80%+) of these people
will move to an eReader over the next decade, because (IMO) eReaders even now provide a better reading experience, and that will only improve with better screens over the next few years.
I was talking about authors. Current authors work on computers and with electronic text all the time. Getting a proof back as an eBook isn't really very different from the text they send off. There's little sense of actual publication with an ebook. But a printed and bound hard copy? There's a solid sign of publication. And it wouldn't surprise me if it continued to be so, even though only in very, very short runs.