Thread: Where Have All the Barnstormers Gone
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Old 09-29-2009, 04:11 PM   #24
ahi
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Originally Posted by Moejoe View Post
I can't wait to see the back of paper, messy, cumbersome thing that it is. I no longer own a single pbook and I never will again. Same for music CD's and DVD's. Optical discs are so ridiculous when I can buy 1tb storage for £70 that can house all my stuff quite comfortably.

If there's anything more than a specialized, collectible market for books in 10 years I'd be surprised (my actual prediction is 2014 for the utter collapse of the pbook market, maybe even sooner).
Well, 5 more years is long enough to be as severely limited in your reading fare as you will continue to be.

Hope your dreamily optimistic prediction is accurate for the sake of your intellect. (i.e.: Otherwise you might end up with most books available to you being unremarkable fiction written by uninspired authors caught-up but soon to be dropped from the claws of the publishing industry.)

- Ahi
Last edited by ahi; 09-29-2009 at 04:24 PM. Reason: clarification
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