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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Now there's a bold prediction. Would you care to put a date on it?
Here's my not-bold prediction: No publisher, with more than 1 percent of the advance-paying narrative book marketplace, will drop eBooks altogether in my lifetime (I'm 64).
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I'm not sure that bold is the word I would have picked.
As I've said before, the book market is going through the same changes that we saw in the music market and are seeing in the video market. While eBooks haven't had that break through that many of us expected, it has a significant percentage of sales and no publisher is going to walk away from that. Where we will be in 20 years, no one knows, but I think it's rational to assume that eBooks will still be around. Maybe they will have that break through that gets more people buying ebooks over paper books. Maybe, like music, they will shift from sales to streaming or rentals. Who knows, but it's a pretty good bet that eBooks (and paper books) will still be around.