What you write makes a lot of sense, "they" don't want to become obsolete... We will see what happens... When Gutenberg invented the printing press, they tried to destroy it but it did not work very well... (Thank god or Gutenberg or someone)...
It’s estimated there were about 30,000 books in all of Europe before Gutenberg’s press. Less than fifty years later there were as many as twelve million books, and the book that was printed was often the Bible. As people became more interested in studying the Bible, Bibles were printed not only in Latin, but in German, French, and even ancient Greek.
Many believe that without the Gutenberg press, the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century might not have been possible.