Quote:
Originally Posted by JAcheson
My opinion is that ebooks have reached the end of their initial period of explosive growth. They haven't replaced printed books, though they certainly have carved out a place alongside them.
Looking forward, I predict continued shakeups in the ereader market as new technologies become available. Clearly there is demand for color e-ink, and I think that once a good technology for that is worked out, it will eliminate the black and white ereaders in short order. Color e-ink will probably also expand the ranks of ereader users quite a bit, as it will pull dedicated comic book and magazine readers into the fold.
I don't see printed books going away completely in the foreseeable future. For someone who buys one or two books a year, an ereader just doesn't make much sense. Ereaders make sense for dedicated readers, but the occasional readers outnumber us by 100 to 1 or more, and the publishing industry knows it.
|
I agree. I mean some people still collect vinyl records even though both CD's and Mp3 copies of those same records are available.