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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primal" data-source="post: 5428209" data-attributes="member: 30678">We are? Well, I'm a librarian, and I have to disagree a bit with your  statement that "books are being replaced with their digital versions on  Kindles and Nooks" -- they aren't, at least over here. First of all,  there are still pricing and copyright/IP issues with e-books; many  publishers around here are charging the full price (minus a few euros,  at most) for digital copies, and regardless of digitalization permeating  our society, people feel a bit leery about paying that much for an  "intangible" book. Likewise for digital magazines. Although the annual  book sales have gone up, e-books are not doing that well; IIRC only  5-10% of the national total sales consist of books in digital format. And speaking as a librarian, we still have serious licensing issues with  many, many publishers; some public libraries *do* have e-book readers,  but even the largest e-book collection in my country (i.e. at the  library I work at) consists of something like 500-1000 titles (can't  recall the exact number, and I'm too lazy to look it up ATM). Also, not  every title is available (in fact, publishers seem to be quite reluctant  on, and like I said above, they're relatively expensive and we don't  even get the same rights we do with physical books (sadly, IP and  copyright laws are pretty hazy on digital content, especially in  relation to library services and collections). There are ongoing  discussions with publishers and the organizations representing IP  holders, but so far we haven't found a lot of common ground. In addition  to this, what makes both libraries and customers a bit scared of  digital books is the fear of change; namely, formats may change and  upcoming readers may not support the books you have purchased. With  traditional books this problem does not exist. Gamers may be more comfortable than the general public with the e-book,  and gaming books may make this transition faster than any other type of  literature. However, I'd dare to estimate that it will take at least  5-10 years before e-book will take the world by storm, if even then. And  let me say that I'm not totally convinced of using digital tools only  for gaming; not only do I prefer physical dungeon tiles and minis to  computer screen with fuzzy tokens, but I'm also aware that sometimes  your internet connection and software can be unreliable, too (e.g. we  tried MapTools in one of the groups I game with, and it totally crashed  in the middle of the session; not even our IT experts could save the  day, and thus we gamed without a battlemap or minis/tokens). So, if you ask me, "the need, desire and requirement for printed books" is not yet over -- not by a long shot.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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