It will likely be many more years until all printed books are replaced by e-books. But perhaps in history “books” it will someday be noted that on May 19, 2011 Amazon.com Inc. announced that “after less than four years of selling electronic books, it’s now selling more of them than printed books.” (Read item at end of today's business page briefs column.)/Rebecca Nappi, End Notes. (Newsday archive photo: Ken Spencer)
Qeustion: Do you read e-books yet? Will you miss printed books, hard or paperback, when they finally die?
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.
It will likely be many more years until all printed books are replaced by e-books. But perhaps in history “books” it will someday be noted that on May 19, 2011 Amazon.com Inc. announced that “after less than four years of selling electronic books, it’s now selling more of them than printed books.” (Read item at end of today's business page briefs column.)/Rebecca Nappi, End Notes. (Newsday archive photo: Ken Spencer)
