>>>One of the things I like about reading a newspaper as opposed to reading the news online is that I encounter things I wouldn't necessarily read online. I scan the whole paper (part at breakfast, part at lunch), stopping to read what catches my interest. I may read a paragraph of one article, a photo caption from another, all of a third. I just don't see an e-reading format lending itself to that kind of reading, at least not anytime soon.
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>>Tamar,
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>>What makes you think those things would no longer be available to you? An e-universe (sorry for the clunky invented word) will contain more information, not less.
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>As I said, not anytime soon. Someday, yeah, the format will get there, but I don't think we're close yet to e-readers that offer anything like the paper experience. When I think of all the places I open a book or magazine or newspaper, and all the different ways I read them, I think technology has quite a catch-up job to do.
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>I'll also point out that radio and TV were going to kill newspapers and didn't. TV was going to kill radio. VCRs were going to kill movie theaters. Etc., etc., etc. Instead, each technology finds its niche.
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>Tamar

Recently I read a book (I have already forgotten the name and author), where they mentioned a process where instead of large book stores, these same stores print the book on demand. They had computer archive of every book and the customer comes in, sit at a computer, selects the book, and then goes to a counter to picks up the hard copy. Also, there were coffee stand as there are now.