End of Books (again)

Ann Althouse and discussion in the comments, about an article in Sunday's NYT magazine by Wired magazine's Kevin Kelly about whether digital technology will replace the printed book.

Althouse says that,

Kelly takes the extreme position that copyright holders will have to give up on the outmoded practice of making money from selling copies. No matter how much they've been able to get their needs served by legislators, the sheer force of technology will defeat them in the end.