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People who are completely blind can not read normal books. They have a special alphabet called brail. Now Ebooks are taking over the market and considered more economically friendly than paper books. This is great for those of us with partial and full vision but whats going to happen to blind people?
I don't think e-books would cause braille to stop being utilized. That being said, there's always audiobooks.
Pretty much every device capable of reading an ebook these days is also capable of text-to-speech. Now blind people are not limited to reading braille books which are hard to come by - they can have any digital book read aloud for them.
Don't worry. Paper has a great future, books will never be replaced by some electronic device. It's not the same feeling. No no no
Won't it be better if books are digital? The Braille representations of characters map to ASCII characters used in digitising books. If you wanted to create a Braille version of a paper book, you'd have to OCR it, or have someone transcribe. If it's a digital book, the work is already done.
Plus, there are e-readers that can read digital representations of books vocally, but not so much paper books.