It is not a case of insisting that there are other or better options; there are other or better options. Equally, there is no need to ‘predict’ the death of the physical book; it is dying. Increasingly specialist publishers, such as Dorchester Publishing which focuses on paperbacks, [i] will only produce e-books as it cuts out the actual cost of printing and, therefore, the opportunity cost of remaindered copies.  [i] Trachtenberg, Jeffrey A., Mass Paperback Publisher Goes All Digital’, The Wall Street Journal, 6 August 2010,