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Originally Posted by ahi
Perhaps. And if that comes to pass, eBooks will never replace paper books, being clear and irredeemable failures at serving the same set of utterly basic needs that paper books can easily satisfy.
- Ahi
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Again, that is not the point. Paper and ebooks will continue to exist side-by-side for all time. It may come to be that those books requiring special layout may ONLY be available in paper form -- and very expensive. Others will exist in pdf or some derivative of it. There will be an open shared ebook format for most books -- epub or a derivative of it is the most likely winner.