The usual article blinded by zealotry. There are advantages to both paper books and e-books. The days of the Big Box bookstore might be numbered, but the bookstore isn't going to be gone any time soon. The demand for paper books may decrease, but there will still be enough of a market for independent bookstores to thrive. It's unlikely that the paper book market will decrease to the size of the vinyl market: we'd be hard-pressed to actually tell the difference in sound between CD and vinyl, but the difference between a paper book and an e-book is obvious.
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