What's the future of books?

[RoloMather]

Que?

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: maxster
Que?

We will burn them.

 

[Away]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: maxster
Que?

We will burn the troll.

:thumbsup:

 

[Capt Caveman]

Repost

and

Ban

 

[SlitheryDee]

They will be placed in shelves.

 

[Riceninja]

in pdfs

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
They will be placed in shelves.

What will they use, some type of anti-matter machine?

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
They will be placed in shelves.

What will they use, some type of anti-matter machine?

Yes. It will be squinted at by beetle-browed neanderthals until tuesday.

 

[ballmode]

Kindle

 

[Ruptga]

wikipedia

 

[hans030390]

I misread this as the future of "boobs".

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: hans030390
I misread this as the future of "boobs".

The answer's the same either way. We plan on staring intently at and handling them.

 

[RoloMather]

Originally posted by: ballmode
Kindle

Somehow I don't see the future of books being tied to one company.

Those ebook readers are pretty cool though. Wonder how much they really compete with real books in the future?

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Kindle sales already account for a full third of books sold on Amazon where an electronic version is available.

 

[Chryso]

I like books.

 

[zerocool1]

right now i much prefer a book to a screen for larger print outs. that might change with higher quality color screens for magazines and books.

 

[lokiju]

I just finished another book last night on my e-ink Sony PRS-505 ebook reader.

I'm gonna go with ebook readers being the future of books for now until something better comes along that no ones thought of yet.

 

[Billyzeke]

Ashes

 

[Fritzo]

Egon: Print is dead.

 

[KeithTalent]

They will be read, as always. Some people actually like to read books (shocking, I know) and that is not going to change.

Newspapers on the other hand....

KT

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: ballmode
Kindle

I kind of hope it's not the Kindle, because then content publishers will have too much control over what we do with the content: link

 

[IceBergSLiM]

they will be written and read.

 

[Modelworks]

There is something about being able to take a book anywhere and read it that I doubt any technology will ever be able to beat. It needs no power, can survive heat and cold , can be dropped, beat, and sat on and the content remains. Besides what else would people use to prop up the leg of a table ?

 

[xanis]

Originally posted by: KeithTalent
They will be read, as always. Some people actually like to read books (shocking, I know) and that is not going to change.

Newspapers on the other hand....

KT

This. I thoroughly enjoy sitting down with a good, paper book. The Kindle and other similar devices are good ideas, but I would MUCH rather read a good old-fashioned book.

 

[Dirigible]

I like paper books because I get them for free from the library.