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Old 11-03-2007, 01:46 PM   #26
JamesNunes
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Analogy with digital music

Hello all, new to the forum,

I've been following the digital paper development and I believe we are on the brink of a revolution in books and the written word in general, similar to the one we've seen in the music business.

Digital music was never truly a mass phenomenon before the advent of the mp3 which allowed the download of music and of the digital music players. In the book scene there are already many suitable formats that allow for mass storage in digital format, but we still don't have a suitable hardware. Reading on a computer screen is tiring, and reading on a backlit screen is hardly relaxing, the e-paper makes these problems disappear.

What it seems to me is writers will be able to benefit from the greater accessibility of their writings maybe selling directly to the reader on a website and if they're really good have the publishers do the marketing, PR and translation work. In this way the role of the publishers will shift to that of a service provider for the writer. In any scenario we'll see a downward trend in books prices as the operating costs for the whole operation diminishes.

Sorry for any freaky grammar, I'm not a native speaker
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