Paper book

"Instead of cases of books moldering away in warehouses, your inventory consists of a single digital file, which any "bookmaking" machine can use to crank out a paper book."

"The evidence strongly indicates that libraries and end users expect e-books to have the same functionalities of the paper book, and yet do much more."

"The link with the Internet disrupts the concentration that the paper book facilitates."

Publishers of the paper books are uncertain whether their old reading public has tired of the motion picture or whether a new class of readers has arisen.

Even more important to those promoting paper books was the stark fact that there were not enough book stores to produce an adequate volume of sales to sustain quarter books.

The ad—the first the department ran in more than three years—was inserted after the department had enlarged its space, using the additional area for paper books.