Mark Roberts wrote:
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.
You can make paper and run an offset litho machine by hand.
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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