There’s one area where I’m certain ebooks won’t be able to compete – collectors. According to the Telegraph, Audubon’s Birds of America, will go to auction alongside Shakespeare’s First Folio and the private letters of Queen Elizabeth I.
A well-preserved copy of Audubon’s book, which is bound in a huge folio accommodating life-size paintings of American bird life, is valued at between £4 million and £6 million. Also up for sale are a copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio, published in 1623 and worth an estimated £1 million to £1.5 million, and a series of letters written by Elizabeth I to Ralph Sadler, who became jailer to her half-sister, Mary Queen of Scots.
