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