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Not at all... every opinion is welcome, and your analogies to the "rest" of the commercial world are good and exactly to the point. Publishing is facing the inevitability of having to alter or abandon the specialty model they've built up and protected for so long, thanks to the incursion of technology, and the realities of the modern web-based marketplace. They won't disappear tomorrow, but the market is already progressing around them, and it's up to the publishers to adapt to evolution, or perish.
Whichever they do, books will still be there, and people will still read them. The only thing that is at risk is themselves.
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