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Originally Posted by MAC_Whore
Don't you miss that warm cuddly feeling of a paper book? I think I would.
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I guess I would if I was reading Great Expectations, but when you're citing a 500 or 600 page reference it's SO much easier to find things instead of flipping through hundreds of pages. Especially for textbooks, or scholarly works which cite other publications - that way you can easily access source material without having to get up, look up an author, find where the article was published, who has archives of that journal, and then go dig it up.
I incidentally work in an electronic publishing department, and all of the people who works in Books HATE US. They're like "You're going to be responsible for the demise of print!!" but the truth is that we bring in enough profit to the Press that we keep the books department running, producing highly specialized scholarly material that will not bring in much of a profit and is more of a scholarly pursuit.
I don't think print will ever go away. It's pretty highly fetishized among humans.