Okay, what does this mean to us as writers.

[kentauros]

6. I'm going to make an educated guess that you're aware of this blog:

http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/

And I'm going to make another educated guess that you've read his posts where he's shot down all of your points. The rest of my guess is that you don't agree and choose instead to go the fear-mongering route and the slippery slope argument.

I'm fifty-one and I don't have any problem with bookstores going out of business. There will still be a need for some of them through the kinds of books that don't translate well to e-readers (think of coffee table books as an example.) Libraries will continue to exist, too. I suggest reading my thread titled "Ebooks for Libraries" if you haven't already. Ebooks offer the best opportunity for me to get published. If you don't like that, then fine, I won't expect you to be one of my readers. I have no problem with that, either

By the way, the big publishers have produced plenty of dreck, too, all vetted through their system. And then sold in bookstores.