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Originally Posted by pro-bassoonist
I am sorry but nothing you have written here refutes the points I made earlier. Essentially what you have done is add more speculations to prove that your previous speculations had the credibility they need.
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1. Amazon selling more ebooks than total physical books means little. There are thousands of institutions out there that purchase massive amounts of books each month and the idea that somehow they will stop doing so in the foreseeable future is quite naive. As I said earlier, I hope you are around long enough to see whether the claim quoted in this thread will turn out to be true.
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The point is to show how quickly these things have taken off. It took 4 years for the kindle to go from not existing to selling more ebooks on Amazon than physical. And Amazon sell a LOT of physical books since originally thats all they sold.
That's phenomenal growth and acceptance of a product (ebooks) that didn't exist in any real scale 4 years previous. Many owners would have been of the same opinion as you, they liked 'owning' physical books.
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2. I own a cell phone. I won't be buying a tablet in 5-10 years.
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Both my parents have a tablet and they're pensioners with zero interest in technology. It's going to become a standard device just like a TV or cell phone. You'll own one in 5-10 years, guaranteed.