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To: Rick who wrote (30297)	8/22/2000 9:34:41 PM
From: mauser96	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 54805

The vast majority of out of print books will never be published in paper form again, so publishers have nothing to lose and perhaps a dollar or two to gain by making them available in e-book format. OTOH, perhaps they have the bizarre notion that people read a fixed number of pages a year, and that out of print will subtract from newer in print reading. The economics of printing a dead tree book are so bad that you would think publishers would rush to get away from it, but I'm afraid we are dealing with late adaptor sceptics here, companies that have barely begun to tentatively approach the information age. Also up to this point the vehicles aren't very good- I will read from a PC screen only when there is no other choice. Maybe the new RCA e-book will be better. I think I will give myself one for Christmas. I have a list of out of print books I would like to get, starting with the works of Nevil Shute, a very readable but mostly forgotten author.