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Originally Posted by Justin Nemo
So what is the future of the written word? The impression I get reading through writer's forums is that “You just aint made it until you're in paper”. Writers still put a lot of emphasis on getting a publishing deal and getting your book in print. Only then do they consider that they have made it.
Is this really how we should be thinking in the 21st century. Isn't paper dead?
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Paper is far from dead.
I think at the moment ebooks are seen as just another medium so they're still a part of getting the pbook deal.
As things progress having a pbook will be more of a badge of quality.
The difference between having a pbook or only having an ebook will be kind of like your movie getting a cinema release or going straight to video (download).
Later down the line I think your top authors may get a hardback run but paperbacks will be replaced by ebooks.(except maybe in the third world)
After that who knows?
Hell, we still have records.(for the young uns those are round disks of black plastic that have music etched into them.)
Moksha