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Originally Posted by G1911
It saddens me, personally. It's so convenient that I can have 50,000 books on my iPad that take 0 space when traveling, but nothing is better in life than a good old fashioned book in ones lap.
Card catalogs fall into the sweet spot where the money just doesn't make sense. There isn't enough demand for a vintage card book to get a real publisher to invest into it; but there's also too much demand for you or I or something to print up the copies and just eat a small loss to put out a passion project. At this point, I suspect card physical books are going to be restricted to very narrow niche passion projects that are self-published where the author can just eat a small loss or break even and is doing it anyways because they want too, and perhaps some coffee-table like books.
I'd much rather a 2 volume actual book than a BaseballCardPedia type, but the later seems the only way to do it  . |
BOLLOCKS!!!!! BOOK GOOD, iPad... Backup.
JMHO.
This coming from a person that has well over 200 Civil War 1st and 2nd edition Hardback Books.
Give me a book any day of the year.
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