Kindle and digital books are owned by Amazon. They are making a lot of profits on digital books, and they are selling the device.
Some universities are motivating students to buy digital books and take their iPad or computers to the class room , fully loaded with digital books.
They purchased many used bookstores to transfer/scam the books into digital formats, that is the reason why used bookstores are no longer in existence
I buy paperbacks and take them to a bookbinding company, and they cover them in different colors, and they are brand new again; they use a manual guillotine and attach three ribbons of different colors to mark the book’s pages.
It is an old art that is also disappearing; schools of libraries are being closed, and librarians are losing their jobs, I went to a library to look for a particular book and the librarian asked me of what kind of movie was that; she is not a librarian
I keep them like a treasure; as well, I keep my classical, opera ad jazz music LPs, DAT, SVHS (music tracks), and reel-to-reel, like a treasure, all of them covered with plastic sleeves. I rent a big storage place where I keep most of my music and vintage stereo equipment. A friend of mine who had an enormous collection of music left it to me in his testament
Young people do not know the beauty of reading paper books and listening to good music; anybody who owns a computer becomes a composer
In the past universities had department to listen music on headphone, they have been vanished , my first almamater had a large department for music, there was a LA president who eliminate import taxation for books and music, he wants young peoples to love good music and humanities