The ebook ... it is supposed to do for the publishing industry what mp3s and youtube have done for the music and television. Yet it hasn't happened. Not yet, anyway. They are certainly growing in popularity, and, according to Wikipedia, are apparently very popular in Japan.
I love websites like Project Gutenburg. Sometimes you just want to look up a particular scene in a classic novel, or confirm a particular quote. Archives of classic ebooks like this make this task as simple as doing an internet search.
Ebook readers are already starting to address the common concerns that prevent people from embracing ebooks - the number one drawback being that reading off a screen isn't as easy as reading off the printed page. But a library of ebooks has the potential to hold millions and millions of books in the space of a single library shelf. Perhaps the benefits outweight any potential drawbacks.
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