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Originally Posted by Penforhire
I doubt it will be quite as dire as the vinyl LP situation. We can print-on-demand if we insist on paper books. Vinyl-on-demand? Not so much.
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Actually, vynil-on-demand is coming.
More precisely, the proof of concept exist now and what remains is improving the audio quality.
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/12...nted-vinyl-lp/
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=3AIxhxa9r28
Theoretically, you could buy a disk file over the internet, download it, and print it at home.
Welcome to the 21st century.
BTW, signed ebooks are easy to do with a minor tweak to the formats. No sidecar needed. The (unique) signature file can be embedded inside a file (if DRM free) or in the file's metadata. Other solutions are being tried right now, like this Autography effort:
http://www.autography.us.com/signing.html