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Originally Posted by =X=
I like penguin's books, but if they don't learn to embrace change they too will go the way of the dinosaur.
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Well I disagree with this principle philosophy that change "just happens", and the path we are going is actually already determined by "whatever", and we can not really influence it, as progress is already pretermined (by god???) This attitude was the principle idea of 'the modern' so from 1950 until aprox 1990, 2000. We can very well as sociecty decide again a technolgy, or decide for one technolgy against the other, hot topics in this issues are genetic engineering, nuclear energy now coming co2 exhausting worries and upcoming nano technology... While I do fully understand people raising concerns to this technologies and like to observe public negotations about what to do, this doesn't apply to eBooks and eBookreader at all, there is no 'danger' at all going out of this technology. So why do people like this and the publisher actually make public statements why eBooks are to fail? I mean if are *really* sure they fail, they wouldn't make any public statements about this. We also don't make a great story: "Why the sun will arise again tomorrow morning!". The truth is they actuall fear this technology to be successfull, because they think it endangers them in their social position of power/economy/status. I guess social status (oh look the man must be smart who got so much books visibly on his wall) is what Nick Hornby fears about, economy power the publisher hosting this.