E-books will become the norm once they are used in elementary and high school - probably less than a decade. Just look at how children are using ipods, cell phones, computers, and games like the DS and Wii. During last Christmas, the younger cousins in my family were sitting on the couch text messaging each other on their DS. These children are 4-7 years old!
Kids are also being conditioned in school to recycle and be environmentally friendly. E-books could easily be seen as good for the environment and paper books as bad for the environment. So it is only a matter of time that we will become the old generation that still reads paper books!
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