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Originally Posted by medard
That's true, QuantumIguana.
And Digital Reading isn't that bad of course. If you're interested in classic literature it's a very convenient and pleasant way to build up a personal library. But this library is just virtual, it's only real for yourself.
For a small group of readers, Digital Reading is a nice, cheap and simple way to get your literature. But it's not the future of reading. If you're waiting for this, you'll post the same on MobileRead in 20 years. It won't happen. Printed books will always be the majority, at least for the next years.
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You're right, but not necessarily in the way you mean.
Digital isn't the "future" of reading: it's the present.
The publishing industry has relied on multiple formats for decades. In North America we have mass-market paperbacks, trade paperbacks, trade hardcovers, library bindings, collectors hardcovers. Now we have ebooks as well as print.
I don't think anyone really expects digital to completely drive out print, but it's already making inroads and has become a permanent part of the market. We can already see what's happening as digital is taking over the disposable fiction part of the market that's been served by the mass market, but not so much hardcovers and trades.