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Originally Posted by bookman156
Digital publishing in the future is bound to be some kind of virtual reality experience.
But for now the advantages/disadvantages of digital publishing, depending on your point of view, is that ebooks are easy to pirate and the quantity of self-published mediocre books has increased exponentially (print publishing is also 90% mediocrity, but at least there the bar is a little bit higher to actually bothering to publish something, thus cutting down on it a little). Oh, okay, it's useful to be able to carry a 1000 books on a trek for the weight of one and to search in the text. Apart from that, I still prefer print books. I must be a dinosaur.
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Another phenomenon is the publishing in eBook form many books that are out of print and hard to find. Some are excellent and there is a proliferation of out of copyright books from times gone by giving us a fresh perspective on recent history. What I see is a bunch of books to read that would otherwise be unavailable. I prefer a eBook much more than nothing. I must be a dinosaur of a different sort.
Dale