The future of Book Industry

Books have been around for centuries, and even though the excitement about them has died down immensely, I cannot imagine a world without them. They have been a crucial aspect of society in the past and the present. As a resource, books are clearly being substituted by the Internet in most cases, however as an entertainment device nothing can match up to a decent book. Although it has been said that almost any book can be found on the internet and read there, I do not see my peers or myself utilizing the internet for that reason specifically. Books offer a classic way of escaping reality that not many other experiences can achieve. On that note, if books were to completely vanish from our world today, something would clearly be missing. I think that if this were to happen, society would suffer. Would the concept of learning to read be replaced by learning to navigate on the Web? In addition, would this make the rates of illiteracy soar to unbelievable heights? I believe it would. If books were to go, I can imagine that it would only be a short while until newspapers were deceased, and magazinges, ultimately resulting in an entirely digitally run world. We would lose a whole group of proffessions and subject areas in school such as english, because there would hardly be a need for it. For these reasons I cannot see the book industry collapsing especially anytime soon. It is a neccessary component of life today and as much as we probably don't appreciate them anymore, they will always be a helpful and entertaining resource to have.