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Old 11-19-2016, 11:58 AM   #32
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It makes me wonder exactly whose ebook take-off expectations they're basing the assertion on? Exactly what level of take-off-edness WAS expected, and by whom)? I mean, there's no way Amazon was disappointed in how well ebooks have been recieved, right? So who was it that expected them to do better than they did (are doing), and wny were their expectations lent such credence?
I suspect that both publishers and readers were expecting something akin to what the music industry faced with MP3s.

And there's articles like this one: Books are back. Only the technodazzled thought they would go away

They are FUD. But regardless, they are what general news sites rely on.

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