Bookstores [Was: Re: Going OT [Was: Re: Replacing PBXes with Open Source]]

[Bill Sconce]

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On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:21:06 -0400 (EDT)
bscott at ntisys.com wrote:

> ...more and more books
> are becoming available in pure electronic form.  (*)  When there's nothing
> physical to sell, the physical store becomes completely superfluous.
> 
>   Sure, sure, many still like the physical medium of paper and ink, for one
> reason or another.  But in the future, when everybody has grown up with
> e-books all around them, do you really think there will be that much call
> for dead trees?
> 
>   We are witnessing the beginning of the end of an era.  Printed media is
> becoming obsolete.



I doubt it. 

-Bill


(*) Breathtaking leap.  Preceding (*) is a gentle, factual statement. 
Following it is ... what?

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