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Old 07-05-2008, 08:55 PM   #11
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Authors write stories. While I can imagine that there's a great deal of satisfaction in seeing the book and holding it and seeing it on shelves in the stores -- I'm not sure that the author set out to write a *book*. It's the ideas and plot and story that the author is all about.

I can imagine that many people in the publishing industry are hostile to the eBook trend since if the bulk of readers adopt eBooks, their jobs may be at risk. (Book design, printing, art, binding ...)

I am a READER. I read an average of 12 books a month. I buy some *paper* books every month. It's not unusual for me to make a trip to the book store and come home with 2-10 new books. And I'm even more uninhibited when I go to the used book store. I have enough *paper* books stockpiled that I can read at my current pace for at least a year without buying another book. And now I have hundreds of eBooks -- purchased and free -- available to support my habit.

Nick Hornsby doesn't know what he's talking about. Readers read. Non-readers only buy books as gifts, so there's no need to even consider them when debating whether eBooks have a future. Yeah, there are proportionally fewer readers today now that people have so many other ways to be entertained. But us readers are the marketplace.
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