Books still have many things going for them. Once they are produced, the only infrastructure they require is literacy and something to keep them dry. Once you

Books still have many things going for them. Once they are produced, the only infrastructure they require is literacy and something to keep them dry. Once you have a book, you can do almost anything you want with it, including give it or sell it to someone else, who will have the same rights you had. Copyright does apply to books, of course, but with books, the concept of fair use is well ensconced, and not encumbered by EULAs and "click-wrap" terms of use. So yes, books may well be terminal, but if they die, we risk loosing something more than just a stack of dead tree we can hold in our hands.