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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian
Yes they do.
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No, they don't.
If they did, no paper books would be printed anymore.
No used market; no book crossing; no lending books each other; Easier distribution; complete control over every single copy; ability to delete already purchased book with one mouse click; ability to limit the total number of times one single copy is read; fast obsolescence. It's publisher's heaven.
Who on earth would chose to artificially lower his income?
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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian
You know what's funny? That's the one people care about most. And, for the majority of readers at least, the only one they care about. Books printed on paper are superior in terms of quality of display: not only for black and white text, where the gap is rapidly narrowing with dedicated devices, but also for color photos etc. But that's a technical hurdle. The day will come when these devices will be as good if not better than printed paper. In many cases they're good enough already for many purposes.
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I'm not sure they're the majority. But I'm sure visual people are not 100% of entire population.
Try to spend a few hours in a car salon: you'll notice three kind of potential buyers.
The ones who go straight to the salesman and just listen to what he says, giving a quick glance to the car and demanding to hear the sount of the engine;
The ones who sit in the car, try levers and steering wheel, clicking buttons, lowering windows, testing the seat and going around touching almost everything;
The ones who stare at the car for a long time, looking at it form every angle, lowering themeselves to have the hood at eye level, they walk around, rarely touching the car, and mostly not listening to what the salesman is saying.
The first ones will listen audiobooks with pleasure.
The second ones will stick to printed books: they're the ones who enjoy to
feel a book.
The third ones will be pleased with ebooks. But they'll likely complain when the formatting is poor.
Of course all those three groups can read ebook with pleasure. But just go around on blogs and count how many people miss the tactile, auditive and olfattive stimuli that come with p-books.
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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian
Hearing? Let's be serious here. Smell can be nice, but I don't read to derive any olfactory pleasure from it.
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You don't.
Does it mean that nobody does?
And I'm not saying people read just to hear the sound of pages turning. I'm saying there are people who rather read paper books for it.
A friend of mine reads books one page at a time. tearing them apart, I mean.
How can he be satisfied by an ebook device?
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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian
Many of your arguments could be made in favor of traditional photography and yet it's already been relegated to the art shops of this world.
There'll always people developing their own black & white photos, but they have become an insignificant minority.
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Get a copy of the National Geographics magazine and count how many photos in it are digital.
