From the Wall Street Journal Online
The e-book had its moment, but sales are slowing. Readers still want to turn those crisp, bound pages
By NICHOLAS CARR
Lovers of ink and paper, take heart. Reports of the death of the printed book may be exaggerated.
A 2012 survey revealed that just 16% of Americans have actually purchased an e-book.Ever since Amazon introduced its popular Kindle e-reader five years ago, pundits have assumed that the future of book publishing is digital. Opinions about the speed of the shift from page to screen have varied. But the consensus has been that digitization, having had its way with music and photographs and maps, would in due course have its way with books as well. By 2015, one media maven predicted a few years back, traditional books would be gone…
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