Our teacher in all his wisdom stated, "it all depends upon what the final usage will be"
That is never more true than with digital. I regularly shoot high level jpegs (18meg when open) that compress to around 4-6 meg. These are printed A4 and larger in magazines and the quality is more than adequate. Sometimes they are upped to A3 they look fine. So I have to agree that if your aim is fine art or you need the freedom of definite colour control then raw is the way to go, but for 90% of commercial print with a high level jpeg you will never know the difference.
Also in these days of broadband emailing a 4-6 meg file is not a big deal
Mick Bell
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