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03-18-2013, 05:58 PM | #1 | |
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Rise of Amazon and Ebooks Force German Publishers To Reinvent Selves
http://www.spiegel.de/international/...-a-888679.html
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03-18-2013, 07:27 PM | #2 | |
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Actually, I find this quote more telling:
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The best of times, the worse of times. Someone said.
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Funny how all the Mac and Windows Freaks like to disrespect the Chromebook.......yet people are buying it.....The only constant in life is change..... and with another OS on the landscape the better the choice for the consumer.....
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It's funny. I was talking to a colleague the other day - hardcore developer. I was talking about Chrome OS and he was completely shocked. He'd not only never heard of it, but he couldn't understand it at all. I was trying to explain to him how such an OS was not developed for people like him or me, but I might as well have been telling him that people were buying laptops that could only display a screensaver. I always find it amazing that there is always going to be a brand of person that makes no attempt to see things from different angles at all. But then I guess it's just another angle in a way, so I should try. |
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even funnier.... I put this comment in the wrong thread. My stupidity continues.... that said where is my bottle of beer???
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Now also: Desktops Laptops Chromebooks Netbooks Tablets eReaders Smartphones which do it all (or so their users like to think.) The important question is what are you going to do with it. Now days what most call a "computer" is for playing videos, listening to music, and mail. So it is a replacement for the TV, a Radio and an paper/envelope/stamp. Some like myself have them all. (The one with the most toys wins!) |
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I know German mind they know machine, medicine, chemical, technology with best publishers, libraries, book stores like see in old movie with drinking songs |
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That is what has happened to the book publishing industry. The quote where the official said, "For decades, the publishing business was pretty much the same," tells all. No business is EVER the same for decades. But people's ability to fool themselves seems boundless. |
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Some of the pain is certainly self inflicted, just look at Suhrkamp and their internal squabbles.
With the Tolino the book retailers finally seem to have realized that they can't ignore ebooks any longer. The Tolino may still have some room for improvement, but it is quite good to start with and they command the shop floor in the bookshops. I seriously dislike Amazon for the dodgy tax deal they made with Luxembourg. The price for the end customer is the same, with Amazon pocketing the 16% difference in VAT. Tax dodging seems to be one of the foundations of their business model. Apart from that Amazon is mostly creating crap jobs, poorly paid warehouse slaves and exploited delivery people. The kicking Amazon got in the national media for their poor employment conditions wasn't nearly as bad as they deserved. I almost never buy books from them. I appreciate that my city of 300,000 still has at least a dozen bookshops, most of them independently owned. That is where I get my books; same price as Amazon + overnight delivery and maintaining decent jobs in the community. |
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