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Old 02-14-2009, 08:11 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by GeoffC View Post
Booksellers need to be educated as well. A Waterstones close to us has a Sony on display, but it wasn't connected to power and I couldn't examine what the text on it looks like. And the assistants in the shop were obviously not interested - perhaps they fear the encroaching of the technology - though I doubt it's going to take over cellulose books for many a decade.

Not that is, until e-books look like the ones they show in "Andromeda". !!


I think it will be like Compact disk replacement of Vinyl records.
Books will stay on as a nostalgic niche market,
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