“People will say ‘no, no, no’ — of course you like your libraries,” Negroponte said. But he cited the report that sales of books for the Kindle recently surpassed sales of hardcover books.
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“It’s happening. It not happening in 10 years. It’s happening in 5 years,” he said.
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By “dead,” he of course doesn’t mean completely dead. But he means that digital books are going to replace physical books as the dominant form.