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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 7529719" data-attributes="member: 6796661">Regarding death of paper.  Well, yes, more of our reading will be done on electronic devices and books will be more luxury devices. But there is a demand for luxury items.  Popular blogs and podcasts have reprinted content you can get for free as books and have been successful with that. Many of these tend to be premium binding and quality paper and ink.  Many people like to have nice books. Both the tactile enjoyment of reading a physical book and also as decoration for their homes. I know that I have greatly decreased my physical book collection as my Amazon Kindle collection has replaced books for most one-off and reference reading. But I keep beautiful and interesting books on my self. D&D 5e books are in the beautiful and interesting category. Even though I own them in D&D Beyond, I still like to have the actual books on my shelf and I enjoy browsing and reading them. I use digital during play for convenience but I use paper when reading by the fire for self enjoyment. POD also continues to increase in popularity and in quality. Making small runs that cater to the long tail of niche interests more economical. I think we will continue to see print books for the same reason we have publishers offering premium cover editions -- a good number of people are willing to pay the higher prices for the luxury of a printed book.  TTRPGs are a niche hobby with passionate fans. We'll pay for the nice books even if pulp fiction is no longer available in paper.</blockquote>

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