"This morning, I woke up and turned on my computer," wrote one reader. "Happily, it seemed that the MobileMe E-mail service was back up."

“早上我起床打开电脑，”一名读者写道，“庆幸的是，似乎MobileMe电子邮件服务功能恢复了。”

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But then a funny thing happened: For years brick-and-mortar companies happily coexisted with their e-rivals.

但有意思的是：实体企业并没有就此淡出历史舞台，而是与电子企业快乐地共存了许多年。

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It seemed inconceivable at that time that the print book business with its half-millennium history would become worthless in just a few years time, so the predictions by industry leaders were that the venerable print book business would coexist happily with the augmentation of e-books that would allow people to travel easily with their favorite book.

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