My hunch is that paper books stay in the game much longer than the e-bookists believe and that production and unit sales of both will continue to rise. This article describes how the costs of e-books are not as dramatically lower than paper books as one might suspect:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/business/media/01ebooks.html?em=&pagewanted=all
If the cost-driven corporate publishers do gravitate en masse to e-book-only production (which I severely doubt), then I suppose the superbookstores could add a lot of seats to the coffee bars and sell more greeting cards and chocolate. And of course, the children's section would appear safe until amazon comes out with a chew-proof toddler model.
Well, when you book your flight to the future, remember that all electronic devices must be turned off during extreme turbulence, departure, and landing.
Alex Kudera’s award-winning novel, Fight for Your Long Day (Atticus Books), was drafted in a walk-in closet during a summer in Seoul, South Korea. Auggie’s Revenge (Beating Windward Press) is his second novel. His numerous short stories include “Frade Killed Ellen” (Dutch Kills Press), “Bombing from Above” (Heavy Feather Review), and “A Thanksgiving” (Eclectica Magazine).
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