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The physical book really has had a 500-year run. It’s probably the most successful technology ever. 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.

Jeff Bezos on the Inevitable Obsolescence of Books - Amazon (via Gizmodo)

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