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Steven Lyle Jordan · 06-11-2010, 08:22 AM

When we consider two things--

that electronic devices are becoming cheaper and more ubiquitous, now available even in third-world countries (in fact, in greater numbers than books in many places) and allowing us to read on almost all of them--

and the fact that our ecological problems are waking us up to the fact that we need to preserve our forests, in fact plant new ones, instead of harvesting them for a disposable, carbon-releasing product like paper--

the likelihood that paper will continue to be used for mass-market publication is virtually zero.

Paper will become a niche product, much like the formerly common parchment, vellum and sheepskin are today.

06-11-2010, 08:22 AM	#23
Steven Lyle Jordan Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,478 Karma: 5171130 Join Date: Jan 2006 Device: none	When we consider two things-- that electronic devices are becoming cheaper and more ubiquitous, now available even in third-world countries (in fact, in greater numbers than books in many places) and allowing us to read on almost all of them-- and the fact that our ecological problems are waking us up to the fact that we need to preserve our forests, in fact plant new ones, instead of harvesting them for a disposable, carbon-releasing product like paper-- the likelihood that paper will continue to be used for mass-market publication is virtually zero. Paper will become a niche product, much like the formerly common parchment, vellum and sheepskin are today.