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Originally Posted by elainevdw
I don't know about print going obsolete -- but I do worry about the price of printed books skyrocketing. When enough people start buying ebooks rather than the print versions, demand for the print versions will decrease, and therefore there will be smaller print runs. The smaller the print run, the more expensive it is. I see print books becoming a luxury item, and those cheapo grocery store paperback genre books simply ceasing to exist altogether as people download the even cheaper ebook versions instead.
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I don't see that with books in English - the potential market, as in, everyone who can read English is still huge. Danish publishers still somehow make money even if their potential market is very, very much smaller. Books are more expensive here, granted, but still not luxury items.