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Originally Posted by Paperbackstash
All of these reasons as stated. Some technology advances are superior, but print books are not obsolete since they still work well for most readers. With music, there was a cost behind a lot of the advancement, it's so easy now to stream music. When we went to the CD format, I started hated that format. Same with DVDs, at first collected them, but find them a failure with holding up and endless issues. Cutting cable cost and streaming movies and shows became an in thing, a way to save money, a way not to buy hardware. You will get the music and movie collectors who still buy physical and display, as you do with books, but the differences between viewing a VHS tape versus a DVD, then a blue-ray, versus streaming, can all be so different and heavily affect the product.
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I was astonished to learn that streaming services do not offer the ground-breaking soundtrack to
A Clockwork Orange, or any of Wendy Carlos' catalog, for that matter. Apparently, though being a pioneer of electronic synthesizers and their usage, she doesn't support the move to digital (well, Moog is an analog synth after all -- I have the iPad app! not so analog now...). Even the CDs are out of print. Digital resistance was not unreasonable in the MP3 era, but fortunately we have moved beyond that and have Hi-Res Lossless streaming. Somebody should let her know.
I ordered the soundtrack CD last night (I am going to add it to iTunes Match, sorry Wendy), my first CD purchase in years.
And even the Pulitzer-winning
Gödel, Escher, Bach is not available as an ebook (apart from a bootleg on Amazon in Print Replica format). I bought a book scanner a couple of months ago and might have to roll my own.