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Originally Posted by apbschmitz
As dad to a 25-year-old sorta hipster who buys loads of vinyl that she plays on a retro turntable, I'd bet more heavily on the kids of the future rediscovering the physical book and applying to old fetishizer to it. First editions will be big. Ditto for illustrated books. And bookcases — lookout! They'll have anti-sag reinforcement and glass doors to better concentrate that old musty smell. The proud owner will open the doors and invite guests to inhale the mold of decades past.
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Indeed. Paper books will be reduced to a niche market, with nearly all books being published as ebooks only. But, like LPs, that market will never, ever go away. Many recording artists sill release new work on LPs, sometimes on LPs only initially.