My first source has quoted Jeff Bezos saying something very odd about how traditional books are on their way out:

But the physical book really has had a 500-year run. It’s probably the most successful technology ever. It’s hard to come up with things that have had a longer run. If Gutenberg were alive today, he would recognize the physical book and know how to operate it immediately. Given how much change there has been everywhere else, what’s remarkable is how stable the book has been for so long. But no technology, not even one as elegant as the book, lasts forever.

By the way, there is speculation that the figures about more e-books being sold on Christmas than actual books, which we reported earlier, might not be entirely accurate. You see, many of Amazon’s ebooks are available for nothing, including classic public domain works. I wonder if Amazon calculated the price of the ebooks sold for that figure, or the number of ebooks sold.

In other words, are numbers being manipulated to prepare us for an ebook age? Let’s just let the natural course of things prepare us for this promised ebook revolution.

Source1 and Source2

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