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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greatwyrm" data-source="post: 2020651" data-attributes="member: 479">Who says it has to take over?  I don't think real books will disappear in 5 years, but I do think pdfs will be a much larger part of the market by then.  There is a growing segment of the market that wants them, so the publishers need to accomodate them to keep market share.  Some of the bigger players are only now getting around to doing that.That's the Holy Grail of advertising, isn't it?Maybe not in an ideal form, but RPGnow and DriveThruRPG aren't that far from it.  As more publishers take advantage of something like the "demo" feature on RPGnow, online browsing will become more of a reality.Tough to argue with that.  What do you mean by "FREE searching", though?Moot.   <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=";)" /> I think this is probably the biggest limiting factor of the ones you've thrown out.  Maybe somebody will make a dedicated e-book reader that's about 8x11.  Hook up via USB and load your books like songs on an iPod.Never underestimate creative people who want to make money.But there's a point of critical mass where stuff like this just takes off.  Sure, the internet was around since the '60s or something, but didn't have real consumer applications until recently.  Since then, everybody and his brother has a webpage for something or something to sell.Same with TV.  How many decades did we have just 3 or 4 channels?  Then somebody comes up with cable TV.  Everyone "knew" that nobody would pay for TV when they could watch it for free.  Now we've got more channels than anyone knows what to do with and people watching all of them.Stuff like this may not happen overnight, but it happens.</blockquote>

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