With the advent of the Kindle and Nook, for those of you playing at home...these are electronic book devices kind of like an Ipod or MP3 player that you can download books on. Anyway back to what I was saying, I am an avid reader of books, printed books whether it is printed from a whole forest that has been clear cutted and the earth salted or made on recycled pages with a tear drop of a virgin on each page and hippies taken time away from a Ratdog concert...I prefer to read my books on print not on some computer screen...Anyways what are your thought on this? How long does the printed word on paper have left to live?
Will The Printed Word Die??
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PlasmaTwa2
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Considering you figured you had to explain what a Kindle and Nook are, I think that answers your question right there. Books are going to be here for a long time. :tongue:
GregCentauro
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Still waiting for the paperless office. 
The reason I am bringing this topic up is that my mom wants a Nook for her birthday and my answer to her was this...Hey I bought you a Gameboy DS last birthday and now I see you setting your gin and tonics on like a fucking coaster. What makes you think I am going to buy you another sophisticated piece of electronic gadgetry for you to ruin. And this is the woman who pics up the cordless phone she has and trys to change the channel with it or picks up the tv remote and says hello.
Can't you already put ebooks on the DS? If so you're sorted, there's no need for the Nook.
Buy her a vibrator instead, mom's love those.
I was thinking of installing a stripper pole not only will she get her regular cardio, but hey my dad will like it as well. It's a win/win situation for both of them, as for my eyes and ears hey that is why moonshine and inhaling a sock full of spray paint fumes is for...to blot out those painful demonic sounds in visions conjured up from the 5th Circle of Hell.
The advantage to real printed books is that they are more durable and tangible. Even in a post-apocalyptic world a huge number of them will survive. You don't have to worry about losing your entire library because of some glitch or computer crash. Sure somebody’s house could burn down, but things like that are rarer for people than catastrophic computer crashes.
Also once you have a physical book, you have it unless somebody physically takes it away from you, unlike the time Amazon erased a book form people's kindles remotely because it found out it shouldn't have sold it. That's about the equivalent of a book store sending a repo guy into somebody's home to get a book back it accidentally sold. I don't want things like that to start happening.
I also will be surprised society goes with complete electronic books soon because people that produce data complain about piracy a lot now. Downloading a book is going to be so much easier than even a song, movie, or video game because it doesn't take up that much storage space.
You realize how ironic that sounds from somebody that spends so much time here? :tongue:
Also once you have a physical book, you have it unless somebody physically takes it away from you, unlike the time Amazon erased a book form people's kindles remotely because it found out it shouldn't have sold it. That's about the equivalent of a book store sending a repo guy into somebody's home to get a book back it accidentally sold. I don't want things like that to start happening.
I also will be surprised society goes with complete electronic books soon because people that produce data complain about piracy a lot now. Downloading a book is going to be so much easier than even a song, movie, or video game because it doesn't take up that much storage space.
You realize how ironic that sounds from somebody that spends so much time here? :tongue:
I doubt we'll be the reason why printed material will die, it'll be the publishers who decide when printing material is no longer profitable and they start phasing it out. Also not many people read anymore and storage is also a common problem so on paper the future doesn't look too good for print.
What?!? Book sales would say otherwise.
& storage is a common problem?
Where are you getting this data from?
Books will be around for a while (schools can't afford to give a kindle to each student) but I don't foresee a bright future for newspapers or possibly even magazines. I'm usually checking news websites like every two hours, a delivery of a newspaper once a day just can't compete with that
WHAT!?! I'm sorry I didn't read your post....
You're probably correct. But when have I ever not been a living contradiction?
Still waiting for the paperless office.
The last few years there's many of them in Silicon Valley. They have a sign out front: "For sale or lease - Call (408) xxx-xxxx" (Needless to say they are also deskless, phoneless, computerless, employeeless too!
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