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Originally Posted by Andybaby
I think #1 is completly bogus, with a lessening economy the people spend less on luxaries, and multi hundred dollar readers arent exactly gonna fall into peoples hands
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I think most or all of his reasons are bogus, or at least overemphasized. The economy as you say, the environmental angle is arguable if not outright wrong, and the publishing industry is not going to magically change overnight.
I wrote up a detailed defenestration over at TeleRead, which I'll just
link to instead of copying and pasting in here. But in short, it's the same old pie-in-the-sky, e-books-are-going-to-take-over-because-I-want-them-to stuff we've been seeing for the last ten years. Bah. Let's try to be a little more realistic.