BOOKS: ELECTRONIC: The Rights and Wrongs of Digital Books

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BOOKS: ELECTRONIC:
The Rights and Wrongs of Digital Books




The Rights and Wrongs of Digital Books
Reading on screen has to get more like reading a book, says Bill Thompson
4 November 2010 Last updated at 10:16 ET
BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11693222



The recent rapid growth of the market for electronic editions of 
contemporary fiction, with some titles selling more in digital 
marketplaces than they do in printed form, seems unlikely to tail off. The 
latter part of 2010 may mark the point from which future historians date 
the transition to screen-based reading for literary fiction as well as 
reference works.



Amazon recently announced that during September it sold more Kindle books 
than print books for the top ten, hundred and even thousand bestselling 
books on its US website, and other retailers will no doubt see the same as 
Christmas approaches.



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Everyone involved in the book trade, as we will probably continue to call 
it for some years, is trying to decide how to respond to this change and 
anticipate the imminent arrival of the sort of creative destruction that 
has swept through the music industry, but few seem to have many good 
ideas.



Independent publishers like Faber & Faber and Canongate, both of whom I 
spend time talking to about the impact of digital publishing (though not 
for money), are trying hard to remain relevant, and initiatives like the 
new electronic publshing service, Faber Factory, are a sign that they 
understand the changing market.



However, even they are not yet willing to accept that the price of 
electronic texts is too high, and that readers will not pay the same for a 
bunch of bits as they will for a bound book, since the market knows that 
it costs less to send electrons over a network than it does to buy paper, 
make books out of it and ship the physical objects around the world.




They also seem unprepared for the fundamental shift in the whole basis of 
their business that digital distribution brings about.






The complete article may be read at the URL above.





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