E-readers

When someone writes "e-readers don't glare in the sun," I wanna scream, "You know what else doesn't glare in the sun? a BOOK." When I work on a computer screen all day, the last thing I want to do is look at yet another.

Furthermore, CD sales are down this year, while vinyl sales are UP. People have decided that if, in this period of rampant piracy, they are going to buy music, then by golly, they're going to buy a RECORD, something you can touch, something with decent equalization, something that won't get LOST when the EMP bomb wipes out the cloud.

Similarly, as we approach the cusp of mass-pirated books, many people may decide they wish to own something tangible, real, maybe even hard-bound, something that won't get remotely deleted by our internet overlords: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html