This new "public library" trend.

inkblot

Who on Earth is going to get books from one of these "libraries" when you can get any book you want online, usually for free?

IJBM: This CNN article out-Ric Romeros Ric Romero.

Vivi

Actually, there are a lot of books I've tried to find only for free and couldn't.

GLORIOUSLeader

No Inkblot, this isn't Ric Romero.

This is CNN.

/Romero laughs at your attempts to copy him

Icalasari

Pirates haven't gotten to many books! Quick, turn all video games into Choose Your Own Advenrure Books! It's the best DRM yet!

...I would laugh if a company ever did that for that reason

Edit: How the fuck did I miss those typos the first time?

Vorpy

I decided not to click on the link or read your thread, only the title, and I have this to say:

No. Because people like owning physical copies of books, and old people, poor people, and people without internet access still exist.

glennmagusharvey

I definitely like owning physical copies of books.

Also, there's a vast, vast amount of literature that hasn't been digitized.  This probably overwhelmingly consists of obscure books.

Vorpy

And books that people don't have the rights to distribute electronically.

Because yeah