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Originally Posted by Jaime_Astorga
Sure they will. In fact, they already have. How many people who would have in ages past resorted to going somewhere to listen to live musicians instead enjoy their music now at home with radios and iPods and internet streaming? Orchestras and other live musicians have become a small niche. Useful for rare special occasions or for people with enough spare money, time, and taste for them to afford the luxury, but the large scheme of things largely irrelevant.
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How many orchestras were operating and playing concerts in 1810, when no recording existed?
How many musician are giving live concerts now?
Are they more or less?
What was the average audience at a single concert in 1810?
How much is it, now?
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Originally Posted by Jaime_Astorga
Even if it is true that 33% of readers will stick with paper books as opposed to eBooks (and BTW, just because there are 3 kinds of people it does not follow that the population is evenly distributed among those categories), in a few more decades most of those people will be dead. Who will prop up the mass paper book industry then?
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As I said, I got the statistics from a set of experiments made in the US; what I did was to approximate the numbers in thirds.