paper book
Noun
Meaning
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see paper, book.
(law, England), A document prepared in English legal practice containing a record or summary of the pleadings.
A traditional hardback or softback book, as opposed to an e-book
(dated) A paperback book.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgExamples
In a paper book, I can skim through stuff that doesn't interest me, but with audio it isn't so easy.
Charges vary, but ebooks can easily be more expensive for us than paper because we can’t get as many lends from an ebook license as we can get from a paper book.
I must say that between cloud storage and easy portability I never plan on buying another paper book unless I absolutely have to.
Of course ebooks would still trump widespread POD machines in ultimate convenience, but perhaps the first company that as you say goes all in with this approach to paper books could take over the lions share of the paper book business.
The step of converting a computerized layout for a paper book to the computerized layout for an ebook will become more and more streamlined as time goes on.
When reading from a paper book, by contrast, our brains switch to a more concentrated form of information processing – dubbed 'deep reading' – and it's a mode that actually helps us better absorb and comprehend what's on the page.