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Haven't books have been dying since the invention of the radio? How's this talk about the iPad killing books any different?

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Oh the joys of predicting media innovations. There are plenty precedents, so anyone with any view can find more than enough examples to support his view. I think we are looking more at a iPad:Book::CD:LP or iPad:Book::MP3:CD than a iPad:Book::Radio:Book scenario (where iPad includes all other current and future similar devices). But that’s just me.

(Note to all fuming LP fans: I know fully well that you can still buy LPs. You will still be able to buy printed books in one hundred years. That’s not the point.)

Actually that is the point.

LPs are for collectors and very special music, you don't buy crappy pop on an LP, you buy a classic, something where the LP means something in and of itself.

Books will be the same, special, something beyond the ordinary, where as your pop books become something digital, because the book isn't part of the experience.

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