The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books.
Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse. Then cars became available, and their convenience, compared to horses, was undeniable.
They have increased readership, which is good, but I personally am not very turned on by e-books. The physical book has always meant something to me. I'm like the horse who goes back to the stall. I'm not that adventurous.
I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.
Remember that just because major publishing is having trouble, that doesn't mean people have stopped reading books. Printed books won't go away, but ebooks won't go away, either.
I've never read an ebook. Print every time.
Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.
I hate those e-books. They can not be the future... they may well be... I will be dead.
The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.
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