I feel like this record has been played a lot. Pun intended. Back in the day, horology went through the "quartz crisis" when quartz watches entered the market.

I feel like this record has been played a lot. Pun intended. Back in the day, horology went through the "quartz crisis" when quartz watches entered the market. The pendulum swung back, and mechanical watches are magnitudes more expensive and desirable than their quartz cousins. Audio went through the same thing - digital replaced analog and became exceedingly cheap. Now the good money is in vacuum tube amps; good record players cost thousands, and people pine for the warmth of analog. I imagine the same will happen here. Maybe not to the same degree... But that penny analog book probably still costs several hundred times for the digital download. E-books are a convenience and the way of the future. But purists will always hold onto books, and rare books will become more and more valuable. The dog-eared copy of Huck Finn that's worth $10 today will be worth magnitudes tomorrow after the pendulum swings back. Technology disrupts right up until people have a crisis of nostalgia, and realize all isn't inconvenience in an analog world.