keith said:
It is true that publishers have to change towards the digital to survive. Yet, the complete demise of the printed book is still far off.
people conflate "publishers" with "the printed book". what a huge mistake. is there a printer attached to your computer? if there is, and you have enough paper on hand, you can print a book. you could print a few of them, every day, each and every day, for a year or two, enough printed books to overflow your house. and speaking of your house, is there a copy-shop down the way? if there is, it could print enough books in a week or so to overflow every house on your block, and then the next block over, and so on. in the future, every book written has a chance to be "a printed book", not just those which publishers think they can sell for profit, meaning we will have _far_more_ "printed books" than we've _ever_ had before... -bowerbird