<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><pre><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman', Times, serif">The idea of electronic books will probably not go away: the next few years will show us what the market is for the idea.</font></span></pre></span></span></blockquote><br></div><div>Precisely, Mr. Schulte. And the issue of ownership of e-books will be a critical one. Amazon has already discovered the disaffection that could be created if the "rental" concept is allowed to take hold in this market. And there can be no doubt that comic book readers/collectors would be especially disgusted by it.</div><div><br></div><div>Gary</div><br></body></html>