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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
If I play you music, if would be difficult to tell if the source is a CD or if it is from an unscratched vinyl record. Some fans of vinyl claim to be able to tell the difference, but even if that is true, most people can't.
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(More often than not, most sound engineers can't tell the difference between $1000 Monster speaker cables and wire coat hangers. Really.)
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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
With e-books vs. paper books, the difference is obvious. E-books are likely to keep the lions share of the book market, but paper books aren't likely to be reduced to the market share of vinyl. We'll be seeing paper books next to the supermarket checkout for some time to come.
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And the kiosk at the airport, and many other impulse buy spots, and spot where people might decide they'd like to read something but didn't expect to when they left home. (The FAA will eventually get their heads out of their asses on using electronic devices on airplanes.)
And hard covers aren't going away in our lifetime.