Why people may want to make books - You get to feel good - twice. You have the satisfaction of making a book then take pleasure in giving it to some one.
“People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people,” said Ethan Zuckerman, a senior researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/crowdsourcing-a-better-world/
The Allure of the Print Book http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com
A study released this week by Voxburner, a United Kingdom-based research firm that tracks how youth consume media, suggests that most British teenagers and young adults aged 16 to 24-years-old prefer physical books over e-books.