[email protected] wrote:
In a message dated 2/28/2009 4:04:06 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
In a couple of decades the average person will no more be able to afford
a printed book than they'll be able afford to stable a horse. It'll be a
nice hobby for the affluent few.
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You keep neglecting to remember used books, which is a huge portion of the
book selling going on now.
If *used* books constitute a huge portion of the market right now, that
*is* the death knell for print publishing.
I prefer print over electronic (in its current forms). Everyone I know
does. But we as a people are abandoning the form in droves.
No one prefers reading on a computer monitor, but we're *doing* it in
sufficient numbers to be putting newspapers out of business. The Rocky
Mountain News in Denver published its final edition this week after 150
years. The Philadelphia Inquirer just filed for bankruptcy. The Detroit
News & Free Press has cut back to printing only 5 days a week. The San
Francisco Chronicle is in big trouble. The American Society of Newspaper
Editors has canceled its annual convention so newspapers can save money.
I still insist on subscribing to the print edition of our local
newspaper. But although everyone *says* they prefer print, there aren't
enough of us who back up these statements with action.
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