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Originally Posted by Elsi
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 ...)
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Maybe, maybe not. Book design is still necessary, and often art. Printing and binding go away, but publishers don't do that in any case. They contract with printers and binders to manufacture the books.
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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.
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I basically tell people that
buying books and
reading them are two separate and distinct pleasures. It's a sophistry, of course, but it soothes my guilt when I buy six books and have time to read two before the next purchase.
The nice thing about ebooks is that it won't be necessary to call the paramedics if my To Be Read stack topples over one me...
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Dennis