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This is a smart piece that poses some pertinent questions regarding the future of e-books:
We know that most people will adjust pretty readily to reading straight text narrative books on a screen rather than paper.
We know that parents will hand their iPad, iPhone, or Nook Color device to a kid so that they can enjoy children’s books on the device.
We don’t know whether adult illustrated book content will be equally well accepted by book consumers on devices, even though there are more and more devices capable of displaying pretty much what publishers deliver on a printed page.
We don’t know what parents will pay for a brief illustrated children’s book delivered for a device, but it appears it might be much less than they’re willing to pay for paper.
We know that consumers will pay paperback prices and more for plain vanilla ebooks, or “verbatim” ebooks.
We don’t know whether consumers will accept paying higher prices for video, audio, or software enhancements to the verbatim ebooks.