Print vs. EBooks

[Speaking Mute]

We engage with music and video formats much more passively than we do with books though. I'm just old enough to have lived through all the major transitions in audio and video media: none of these changes has ever really effected how I listen to music or watch movies - it's pretty much just been one box or another where I hit a button. Ebooks, however, change how we physically go about reading text, and it seems to me very few people actually prefer the new way of reading, they just settle for it because ebooks are more accessible and slightly cheaper. I thus don't see a universal adoption of ebooks - I think that readers who can afford it will continue to buy print. I saw such a divide starting back when I was in college, which was several years before ebooks came along: there were the poorer kids who were scanning and/or sharing pdfs of textbooks, then there were the wealthier kids who would buy the textbook new if they thought they would keep it for reference or used if it was just for the class.