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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
It's just a matter of technology catching up. Once that happens, paper bows out.
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There will always be collectors. Even with the LP to CD change years ago, you can still buy new LPs. And that even has the huge drawback that you need an actual device to use it. With paper books, you can just buy them and read, even 100 years from now (unless you cannot read anymore, but then ebooks will also be turned into movie books or audiobooks)
But collectors don't want the cheap versions, they want the sturdy ones, the ones that look nice on a shelf. That's why I think the mass market paperbacks will be removed from the book stage.