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Originally Posted by ApK
Well, Coke was never about the glass bottle, it was/is about the content, but getting coke in a small glass bottle (preferably with a top that requires an opener, if you can still find such a thing, is a visceral, nostalgic experience that, to me, makes for a better drink (even aside from the actual taste improvement over drinking from aluminum or plastic).
Same for pulp novels (I guess, for some). The very NAME 'pulp' refers to the paperback medium, so it was ALWAYS an element. And pulp or hard back velum, it's not like it's the first time we've heard on this forum of some folks liking the sensuousness of DTBs.
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But those are arguments
for a physical paper-back version, not arguments
against a simultaneous ebook release. I fail to see how the
existence of an ebook version alone could possibly lessen the "sensual experience" of a DTB-hugger diddling their beloved pages.
Does the mere existence of Coke in cans cheapen your visceral, nostalgic experience when tilting back that frosty, glass bottle you chose to purchase your cola in? If you went to the store for bottles of Coke and found they were only stocking cans and plastic two-liters, would you be disappointed? Might you voice that disappointment to someone (regardless of whether or not you purchased the cans)?
A book is still a product, after all. And as such, neither it, nor its creator deserves any special dispensation from "consumer complaints."