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Originally Posted by booklover6
The article about ebooks not taking off was from 1996.
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Yes. But I was also addressing Zodwallop's later follow-up, as well:
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Many (most?) e-book articles that I read that aren't at e-book specific sites make many of the same claims the article I linked to did: E-book sales didn't take off like expected.
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By my calculations, ebooks FAR exceeded any expections that traditional publishing insiders had for them. In fact they never took them very seriously at all until their level of success starting causing them migraines and panic attacks.
The expectation that ebooks would entirely
replace print books was never really one that anyone with common sense took seriously.