Very cool, if true

If everyone's books stopped working one Tuesday then The People would insist Something Was Done.

You are right. On the other hand, if over a ten year period, everyone but luddites moved from their primitive ebook collection in favour of a system where nanobots etched the words into your eyeballs while exuding a relaxing smell of bacon and gradually it became as difficult to get a working kindle reader as it was to get a stylus to play 78s... well, I'm not sure people would care.