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New ideas don't become established because those who don't like them come to accept them, but because those who don't like them eventually die, and the next generation accepts them as being a better idea than what used to be the great idea. I can imagine that when someone had the idea to put text in the form of pbooks some hundreds of yrs ago those who favored the scroll weren't pleased either. Probably there were those who didn't like the printing press either because books were carefully produced works of art and no mere machine could possibly do a better job. There was a time not so long ago when VHS tapes were all the rage for viewing movies. Then the DVD was developed. Gradually stores went from having only VHS tapes to about .75 VHS and .25 DVD's to .50 VHS and .50 DVD's then to .25 VHS and .75 DVD's and now you can't even find a VHS tape on sale in a store. VHS has been pretty much phased out as a medium just like the scroll was by books and I imagine eventually pbooks will be phased out too though not quite so quickly as VHS tapes were.
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