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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
The problem is more to the acceptance of the ebook in itself...
In the same sequence as to move from paper book to digital book, music has had an other step; the CD. That was the first important adaptation from analog support medias to digital MP3.
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Don't forget an important difference here: The album-to-CD switch took years. The public was finally forced to "accept" CDs, because the music industry stopped producing albums. I know I held out for years, until the artists I listened to were no longer being issued on LPs, before I ponied up for a CD player and bought one.
E-books aren't being "forced" on anyone, as if paper has become too expensive, been banned for frivolous entertainment use, or outright replaced with something better (though, with the emergence of e-ink, maybe "reusable paper" is still in the future).
So we'll just have to wait out the "Give me paper or give me death!" naysayers as people everywhere discover the advantages to e-books, find their preferred reading hardware, and switch on their own.
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Flag on the play: I posted this once, and it apparently disappeared.)