E-books Are A Cul-de-Sac
"joseph harris" <[email protected]>
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Good article, thoughtful. Not an attack on ebooks!
E-books Are A Cul-de-Sac
Posted at 8:25AM Tuesday 30 Mar 2010
It is a mark of the publishing industry's poor strategic abilities that e-books have become an all consuming obsession. I believe that, ultimately, e-books are merely a cul-de-sac. Given that sales of e-books tripled in 2009 and continue to boom this may seem ever so slightly irrational, but hear me out.
http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/26553
http://publishingperspectives.com/?p=13674
'... publishers have no special right to exist....'
'...Right now the greatest beneficiaries of the shift towards e-books are device sellers, public domain hawkers and self-publishing authors...'
'...THE critical concern should be developing an expertise in how to sell content in many different forms and at many different prices to different audiences...'
Joseph Harris - Debt Control Man
http://www.controlyourdebtcrisis.co.uk
Author: Control Your Debt Crisis on Your Own Terms
http://twitter.com/debtcontrolman
SAQ - SAve the cheQue
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