Will Books go the same way as the CD & Films?
 

With the growing increase in people who buy kindles and iPads, it's now just as easy to illegally download a book as it is a song or a film

Do you think books will end up going the same way as the other two, with increased illegal downloads and plummeting sales

Personally I haven't bought a book in like 3 years http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...8/9f1de191.gif

I don't think so really, alot of nostalgia with books going back hundreds of years and they're still quite convenient to use

****ing hate using an ereader

I really could not be arsed to read a "book" on one of those readers. I want a physical book where I can flip backwards and forwards as I please.

I only buy real books

I used to be like that too (re not liking using an ereader), but it's so much easier just being able to slide an iPad into my bag, cause it's so small and light and it's got like 15 books on it lined up for me to read

for sure, just don't think the book market will crash as much as DVD and CD ones have

hope not. Haven't read a book in a while but when I did I enjoyed them a lot. Books are timeless.

I don't know how to explain it...a book is a book, the physical being of it...if it starts being on these ereaders/on tablets you might as well watch programs or movies instead

probably doesn't make sense

Has the Cd and DVD/blu-Ray market really crashed?


I'm still regularly buying CDs off amazon for just as cheap if not cheaper in some cases than iTunes.

And Blu-rays are still incredibly appealing, especially if you like extra features.

it has in general terms to the wider market, maybe not crash, but not nearly what it use to be

I hope not... paper lasts hundreds and hundreds of years, technology is obsolete in about a fortnight. People will always want books I think. I know I will... I have a kindle but I prefer to read a book.

It'll be scary when practically everything is digital and then there's some sort of powercut which is bound to happen

I kinda get what you mean, but that's probably what people said about music 10 years ago :laugh:
It hasn't crashed, but it's been on the decline steadily for the past few years, you only have to compare to 10 years ago to see that

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And I'm glad.

No longer am I having to pay £13.99 for a cd from HMV like the bad old days.

The prices for CDs in my opinion are very reasonable in this day and age and I'll continue to buy them over digital/illegal methods until they vanish completely.

I'm not a booky person but I imagine I get the same feeling when I have the physical copy with the sleeve notes/jewel case etc.

your avatar looks like M shadows in a santa outfit :amazed: (or i'm just obsessed)


Agree with everyone. Books better not go extinct. I am not a fan of everything digital/

Music is music, however you listen to it,a tablet is NOT a BOOK!

It can be whatever you want it to be :hugesmile:

might follow suit and actually start buying cd's again. Back in the broke days, geek days I actually had a whole notebook of CDs that I wanted to get. I even put it in alphabetical order. I might be able to find it somewhere still. I used to love that company Britannia. I bought almost the whole Bon Jovi catalogue there.

My music collection is in alphabetical order too :hugesmile:

To me there is nothing better than having shelves lined with CDs. I think my generation is the last generation (I'm 24) that has a lot of people that think like that.

There's something satisfying about turning the page of a book. :hugesmile:

britannia :worship:

^^It ****in rocked!! What happened to it? :(

Yes people that grew up in the 90's probably still love most things from the nineties and earlier. How about Vinyl? Do you go that far? lol :hugesmile:

Lol Vinyl, those things are massive. :hugesmile:

Love the crackly noise and setting the needle on the disc.

What about a gramophone? Do you go that far? :hugesmile:

I can go back to Shellac!

Lol had to google both gramophones and shellac. :hugesmile:

I have a few vinyls just cause of the cool presses you can get..not that I can actually play them, but I love how they look

If I could link listening to vinyls to Last.FM then I probably would more

Books will never be obsolete but it is sorta going the same way, even the major shops like Waterstones and WH Smiths are struggling now and any independent bookshop hasn't got much chance now. Shame cos bookshops are great places, can easily spend ages in there just browsing

Though books have also obviously been around for centuries like Livia said whereas CDs/DVDs etc. were just really the latest technology of the time so books will outlive all the changes

Mind you I don't help much a lot of the time these days I'll look in bookshops but then buy the book second hand on amazon, just too tempting when it's about a fifth of the price

who am i kidding anyway I haven't read a book since I left 6th form

..a tablet will never compare with turning the page of a book but also, people don't necessarily want to take expensive tablets on beaches, planes, trains and automobiles, buses etc...

....and yet that's how they market them!! :conf:

..also, you can just look at a book and know how great the story is by how shabby it looks, I love that..:lovedup:...

Books have a distinctive smell, you only get that from a tablet if it is short circuiting!

Nah, books have been around for a lot longer and I cannot see them going anytime soon. More people prefer books to using a kindle/ipad.