Bibliopocalypse
Bibliopocalypse
It seems like we've reached a point of no return for bookstores and paper books. With Kindle e-books outselling regular books on Amazon, and major bookstores' continued financial woes,it looks like books printed on paper may be nearly gone by the end of the decade. What do you guys think?
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Doubt it. EBooks can never replace paper for readability, just like MP3s STILL have yet to replace Vinyl for sound: anyone who wants quality goes for the traditional medium.
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pfff, quality? Vinyl can't offer anywhere near the same quality as a nice high bitrate MP3, or better yet a lossless format, but there's a distinctly different feel. The comparison to e-books is justified, though. While e-books may be technically superior, there's nothing like holding a book and turning the pages, really.
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EBooks are good for 2 things: out of print, out of copyright texts (see Project Guetenburg) and Piracy.
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Don't forget about the struggling new authors. Now, anyone can publish a book with ease.DHeadshot wrote:EBooks are good for 2 things: out of print, out of copyright texts (see Project Guetenburg) and Piracy.
They're also good for another thing: Saving trees.
While I normally have a hard time accepting change and facing the future, I can't help but see this as a good thing.
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As in the books on there are so old, the writers themselves are a part of history!TerminILL wrote:As opposed to all the unhistorical Australian history?kuliwil wrote:historical Australian history
Seriously - studying Aust. History last year, the people who wrote these books came up as subjects!
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Well they might oversell regular books on amazon, but not in the regular world. However, now that Samsung is mass producing transparency displays thick as paper, I foresee that in the next 2 years companies will starting to make and sell transparency e-books and pads thin as paper. But considering the prices they still wont replace regular books for at least 5-10 years. I think the turning point will obviously be when an e-reader will cost as cheap as a harry potter book. Then you can consider the real end of regular books. Considering that iPad is used by ~0.2% of the world population, I don't see e-books replacing regular ones anytime soon.