The print was published in a halftone and then, later, the image was recorded as inset to a microfilm frame. The example illustrates the dramatic interaction of original and copy. The continuing relation of source original in the context of digital delivery is at issue. Very few other commodities come in such a bewildering assortment, maximizing the advantage of a vast online database. Books are also familiar, relatively inexpensive, cheap to ship, and typically selected after reading a review rather than visiting a dressing room.
Some analysts say that argument still holds.
This is one of those rare, suggestive comments. I enjoyed this short, west Texas view of the future of the book. The CLIR draft of the Task Force Report on the Artifact in Library Collections doesn't even mention the most obvious role of an original as backup for digital delivery. If anything, they have even managed to further partition the role of the original from the surge of access technologies. One reason that the backup role of source originals is not mentioned is that the premise could be critically applied to previous filming programs.