I read all three, but still just prefer the tried and true Hard Bound Book

Some good habits just are hard to break too. m/r

The Battle for the Bucks of Book Lovers

Paperbacks hold their own against e-books.

Thomas J. Craughwell  December 30, 2016

Since I graduated from college in 1978, I’ve spent virtually my entire career in publishing. Naturally, I was interested when e-books debuted. The advantages seemed pretty obvious — portability, carrying around on one device an entire library, not to mention the benefits for publishers who wouldn’t have to pay for paper, ink, printing costs, labor, warehousing books, shipping them out, and taking back returns.

And then there is the ethical issue that is eliminated by e-books. Let me give you an example. A few years back, one of my publishers was having a crisis of conscience. The cheapest places, at the time, for printing hardcover and paperback books were China and the Philippines. The question was, did they want their books produced by political prisoners in China or child labor in the Philippines? It was a tough call, and my fully developed pre-Vatican II Catholic conscience has never been able to reconcile itself with either option. I don’t work with that publisher anymore, and the ones I do work with keep me in blissful ignorance regarding their sources of production.
In the interest of full disclosure, I still don’t have an e-reader. I don’t know why.

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