"Books are dead" Topic

I doubt that e-readers will replace books because they are simply another way of accessing information. I use an e-reader but I definitely will not be reducing my library because of it.

Does amazon actually sell ebooks? I thought they only sold licenses for the kindle, not full ownership rights. Owning a license to use something (with restrictions or not) is not the same as owning the thing itself. Even if that thing is a computer file.

Also, do free ebooks count in those sales statistics? Does every piece of printed mater they give away for free count as a sale?

Who (or what) scans the materials into "e" form…

Once in "e' form, can the materials be "tweaked" or edited (for content, etc.) from the reading device's maker/creator?

Which edition of the original work gets "entered" into "e" form? (Early english translations of Verne perhaps, with 20% or more of the original text missing?).

Certain "uncomfortable" materials left out of the "e" mix because they are *too* something or other/not profitable for the "e" dealers to get mixed up in?

Law books (and other materials) reporting case law and official acts/statutes backed with all the "integrity" of "Google"?

Again, nameless editors and blameless minions choosing the "correct" form of the original, printed document for you to…

enjoy.

Didn't Kindle experience a "problem" some years ago by deleting from their subscribers' machines some printed material(s) folks had downloaded?

That will NEVER happen again, I'm sure.

No batteries?…

No books.

Yeah, I too had considered the pitfalls of digital, and therefore "easily altered," information. It gives one pause.

I wouldn't mind a e-reader but the cost along with durability keeps me out. I'd rather have a paper book but I'm not going to avoid electronics either.

When they can do a pop up book on the kindle where you can pull a tab to make something happen we will all know they paper book is dead.

I'm just afraid I will accidentally leave my e-reader on a bus or something and lose my entire library.

Plus I like to go the bookstore. I never know what I am looking for there but almost always manage to find it. I don't enjoy looking for books online nearly as much. Those purchases are more for what I know what I want from the beginning.

I love books, don't own a Kindle and trees get planted every day of the week.

My 11-year-old grandson is some old upset at Borders going out of business. He wants to destroy all the Kindles, he says.

For most uses, I much prefer paper books. The e-books just don't do it for me, and I do too much staring at computer screens as it is. I have the occasional headaches to prove it.

Of course, I hate cell phones as well, so maybe I'm just technology-intolerant or something.

printed books are dead?, hmm i wonder how much of the Global population could afford an EBook reader? , what about countries without adeqate electric supplies? there are a lot of them, maybe in richer countries yes but not most of the planet, it seems to me people do not look at the whole picture with statements like that, i have been to many countries were having a library is amazing and rare, in fact the list is endless, logical really. Maybe it should be said that 'in wealthy countries EBooks will become more popular' would be a more correct statement.