http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/nearly-half-of-all-computer-games-were-sold-as-downloads-in-2009/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:44:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/nearly-half-of-all-computer-games-were-sold-as-downloads-in-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-1175189 Jim Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:02:30 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/2010/07/25/nearly-half-of-all-computer-games-were-sold-as-downloads-in-2009/#comment-1175189 I think the books crowd is about as stubborn as the senile newspaper crowd. Some just like the smell of paper. When I think of a game, I don't reminisce on the memories of opening that gigantic cardboard box. Perhaps it was the excited feeling of reading the user manual, but many people can't even justify even owning a physical copy of a game. Why bother? It will just collect dust - and when you open it up after years of isolation, might not be readable. I think the books crowd is about as stubborn as the senile newspaper crowd. Some just like the smell of paper. When I think of a game, I don’t reminisce on the memories of opening that gigantic cardboard box. Perhaps it was the excited feeling of reading the user manual, but many people can’t even justify even owning a physical copy of a game. Why bother? It will just collect dust – and when you open it up after years of isolation, might not be readable.

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