> Ebooks are zip files with HTML pages (that is, text files) and images inside There is almost no consumer storage medium that will last as long as a printed b

> Ebooks are zip files with HTML pages (that is, text files) and images inside There is almost no consumer storage medium that will last as long as a printed book. The files that will (probably) be easy to read in 50 years won't be readable on the hard-drive/CD-ROM/etc where they are stored. A printed book likely would be able to still be read