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<blockquote data-quote="Prest0" data-source="post: 4328434" data-attributes="member: 13621"><p>That's a big topic. The short answer is that it's changing the publishing landscape. In some ways it's changing it the way MP3s have changed the music business, but in other ways not so much. Publishers have been promised the advent of a viable e-book market since the 80s. Back then many publishers were burned by sinking a lot of money into digital initiatives that eneded up being premature. Now the big publishing houses are only slowly adopting e-books for fear of being burned again. Everyone is waiting on the "iPod of books". The Sony and the Kindle are both good first-generation devices, but of course the iPod didn't really hit the big time until 5th generation. However, there's a danger in drawing too close of a comparison between the book market and the music market. Books will never be $0.99 unless the number of people buying e-books is significantly higher than the number of people buying print books today.</p><p></p><p>Right now publishers face a chicken-egg dilemma. Why spend money creating digital content when there's no market, but there won't be a market until there's digital content.</p><p></p><p>For a good overview of what's going on in the e-book world, spend a few hours reading posts at <a href="http://www.teleread.org/blog/" target="_blank">teleread</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prest0, post: 4328434, member: 13621"] That's a big topic. The short answer is that it's changing the publishing landscape. In some ways it's changing it the way MP3s have changed the music business, but in other ways not so much. Publishers have been promised the advent of a viable e-book market since the 80s. Back then many publishers were burned by sinking a lot of money into digital initiatives that eneded up being premature. Now the big publishing houses are only slowly adopting e-books for fear of being burned again. Everyone is waiting on the "iPod of books". The Sony and the Kindle are both good first-generation devices, but of course the iPod didn't really hit the big time until 5th generation. However, there's a danger in drawing too close of a comparison between the book market and the music market. Books will never be $0.99 unless the number of people buying e-books is significantly higher than the number of people buying print books today. Right now publishers face a chicken-egg dilemma. Why spend money creating digital content when there's no market, but there won't be a market until there's digital content. For a good overview of what's going on in the e-book world, spend a few hours reading posts at [url=http://www.teleread.org/blog/]teleread[/url]. [/QUOTE]
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