Just like vinyl will never go away and film will never go away. The likely scenario is that paper books will eventually become uneconomical. To few being sold to support book stores for the mass market. Books for the masses will go all ebook. Specialty books will become expensive. It's like with film. Plenty of photographers still liked or preferred film...but the mass market moved away such that film makers could no longer justify the business. We now have fewer sources of film....and a lot fewer stores even sell film. Then the places that process the film started going out of business or raising their prices.
It's just a matter of time
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