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This common prediction has not at all been borne out by facts. Physical books still remain popular -- maybe not as popular as thirty years ago, but there's a lo

This common prediction has not at all been borne out by facts. Physical books still remain popular -- maybe not as popular as thirty years ago, but there's a lot of reasons why that would be the case (general availability of entertainment from competing media). Most importantly, there was a 2017 study that showed that young children prefer reading physical books to reading books electronically. Physical books have been with us much longer, culturally speaking, than vinyl records were. We're talking millennia. It's going to take much more than the iPad to kill them off.

petra 7y ago
The iPad isn't the right comparison. The eInk device is a better comparison, and according to research(1) it's comparable in most ways to paper reading, but it has some problems with helping people maintain chronological order. So eBooks as good as books don't seem so far off. (1)https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00038/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.0003...
jimmaswell 7y ago
We've ridden horses longer than we've had books, and it took some time for cars to replace horses but it did happen after a while.