According to the Wall St Journal, sales of printed books are up 5% this year whereas sales of e-books are down 17%. The Journal gave no reasons. Wow!
The electronic wave of the future stopped cold by Gutenberg's printing press from the 1400's.
I'm in favor, I like reading a printed book better than I like fussing with a laptop to read an e-book. I only mess with e-books to read old favorites no longer in print. Old Edgar Rice Burroughs, old E.E. Smith, old Andre Norton for example. The laptop is bulky but it has a decent screen, the special e-book readers are micro screen devices which don't excite me much. Even the idea of having the Library of Congress packed into a hand held device doesn't really excite me. Apparently the market agrees.
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