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Bookstores will vanish eventually and I hope it will happen sooner then later. As computers and portable readers improve more and more people will throw away their books. Even this bastard child of book industry, pdf format, will go away. Electronic media is more convenient , cheaper and can do so much more then a simple paperback. If Gutenberg had access to modern technology at his time he would throw away his printing press.
Sure, we will see a lot of sh*t and fud from publishers/bookstores because they are going the way of dinosaurs. Lets just hope they wont slow down progress too much.
There are also going to be people who claim that electronic books are heartless which is complete BS. Books are just a way of conveying ideas from one person to another. It just happens to be that till now there was nothing better then paper. I bet that if Gutenberg had access to modern technology at his time he would throw away his printing press.
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