I think books will always be around, as Jerv says, maybe a little less, but they haven’t said their last word yet. Or if they ever do get abolished, it’s not happening right away. Contrary to popular belief, not everybody has the Internet, nor does everyone care about it, whether they can have it or not. And a lot of people who DO have the net don’t give a fuck about e books, like me. I’ve never read an online book or downloaded any books on the PC, and I never will. not true, got some Conan novels, but I haven’t read the online versions, hurts my eyes after like 15 mins Somehow, I don’t think I’m the only one.
For that reason, I also assume porn magazines will also be around for a while. Saw this question earlier and didn’t answer, but when I saw a good amount of porn books in the magazine section at the corner store today, I was reminded of this. was looking for tractor mags, I swear!
Although I do have to say, there were a lot of magazine shops here, and some have closed down. The one that remains is probably making more money selling cigarettes rather than mags…but, something is keeping it in business. I pretty much stopped going when video game magazines pretty much all went out of order, but every convenience store here has mags of some kind or another
@jerv I get that about comic books, but are there enough collectors out there to keep that business going? I don’t really think that if collectors are the only demand, that this will save said industry from making new ones. You have to pay the artists and the enterprise, and some comics go for more than those dudes have ever been paid for making the comics. I love the Conan Saga comics, my dad had most of em in his youth, and then they were mine, but they’re long gone now. I’m stuck with buying hardcover collections. I love them but they’re not the originals. Those don’t go for much today because so many copies were made, but since barely any comics are sold here…if any…I guess I’m stuck with helping to destroy the medium by not buying original comics. And even if I did, they would come from used book stores or people selling them on eBay or wtv, so probably the people who made them get no profit.
So that doesn’t help. Besides Conan I don’t know too much about comic books, but I HAVE noticed their decline, and I don’t think that most of it actually has to do with the Internet. blame TV