I shouldn’t be surprised, but I was pretty disgusted by what I read about the State of the Manga Industry at NYAF 2008 (how come every convention BUT SDCC has one of these?). When the topic of digital distribution came up, it’s nice to say the panelists were “skeptical, at best”. If transcriptions of their statements are accurate, I would consider them closer to downright ignorant! Just because older men who’s livelihood depends on the print industry don’t like the idea of digital distribution doesn’t mean their target audience, teenagers that do more online in an hour than most of them probably do in a day would agree! Guess what guys, it’s not about YOU! The sheer ignorance they display is in the assumption they have that digital distribution will replace book. Even as a firm believer in the digital model, I don’t believe that is going to happen. Audio books hasn’t done print in, digital isn’t going to either. And Gambos’ poor attempt at humor about holding “your Kindle up and wave it in the air” was just plain asinine. The Kindle as a lot of potential, yes, but it isn’t the “ipod of books”. Yet. Digital books, and…