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Originally Posted by Sregener
I can see the day where libraries are mostly Internet terminals, eBooks and electronic research tools. It won't be the "good old days", but the library will still be performing its basic function of open access to information for all.
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Very likely and ebooks give more people than ever before access to a given work as well. People who might not have the ability to purchase a pbook (due to where they live or other reasons) could download a copy of an ebook easily. And since each ebook is just a copy of one stored online that means that the physical constraint of only having a few copies on sale in a store at any one time doesn't apply. I mean a physical bookstore might have say 20 copies of War and Peace in stock and once those are sold if a 21st customer comes in looking for a copy they have to wait til the store restocks its shelves again, but with ebooks any number of people can buy the book and the shelves don't have that problem.