Something interesting

Two piece of info caught my attention. One is "Internet Archive starts backing up digital books on paper" ( http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/06/internet-archive-backs-up-digital-books-on-paper.ars ) and the other is from amazon that it ventures into publishing, not only online self publishing ebooks, but PRINT industry.


Well, does it mean there is nothing really can replace print books - that ancient old format, not yet, or never will? Digital archives, unfortunately, need backup, in case power surge, in case digital format is wrong, then at least, there are papers. How ironic is that!


Amazon knows there will always be a market for print books. So it steps in, bit by bit. Some has concerned that allowing one industry take over everything, online and print, will damage competition. For me I'm more than happy to see that print books are not dead. 


Everything exists for reasons, so print books.