Will eBooks Kill Off The Hard-Cover Book?

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Could the hard-cover book be headed for extinction?

Arnaud Nourry, CEO of French publishing group Hachette Livre told the Financial Times that pressure from Google's (GOOG) digital library project and from the move by Amazon (AMZN), Barnes & Noble (BKS) and others into electronic books is forcing publishers to consider drastic price cuts. He thinks one result could be the death of hardback books.

Hourry also said publishers...

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