mike wilson wrote:
What will stop it is the lack of virtually free energy. When a set of AAs cost the equivalent of £200 at today's prices, what are you going to use them on? When your mains electricity is only on for a few hours each day, what are you going to have working?
By that time, the printing presses and the trucks to distribute books will be shut down.
What really does stand a chance of stopping electronic books is the specter of DRM that Bill Robb and Adam Maas have pointed out. Publishers' greed, in other words.
People have to be able to back up electronic books somehow, so that they can be confident that if they drop, break or otherwise incapacitate their reading device, they haven't lost the hundreds of books thay bought to store on it.
The real Achilles Heel of the whole enterprise isn't technological it is, as usual human.
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