The future of e-books - Page 2

NatCh · 01-08-2007, 05:28 PM

# 3 gets a firm "no" from me.

As for the role of publishers in an e-market -- I see them as doing more or less what they're doing, but stopping just short of the imprinting step. That is, basically a value-added editorial & copy editing service. Sure they'll keep printing physical books, but I expect the quantities will fall off considerably. I'm one of those who doesn't see p-books going away entirely, but rather becoming more of a niche offering. Rather like e-books have been for some time, now that I think about it.

nekokami · 01-08-2007, 05:55 PM

Nice blog post by Michael Mace on this subject here:

http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.co...t-3-books.html

He covers a lot of what we're talking about and makes some interesting observations and predictions.

ekehat · 01-11-2007, 01:51 PM

nekokami,

Regarding the issue of advertising, if it's something like google's ads, I don't think it'd be a problem for me. Those ads don't bother me when I read blogs or other web pages, and I don't see why they should bother me while reading an ebook.

I completely agree that the question of how authors are going to be compensated in the future (and that future is beginning right now) is a big problem. Perhaps it warrants a separate discussion.

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01-08-2007, 05:28 PM	#16
NatCh Gizmologist Posts: 11,615 Karma: 929550 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Republic of Texas Embassy at Jackson, TN Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3	# 3 gets a firm "no" from me. As for the role of publishers in an e-market -- I see them as doing more or less what they're doing, but stopping just short of the imprinting step. That is, basically a value-added editorial & copy editing service. Sure they'll keep printing physical books, but I expect the quantities will fall off considerably. I'm one of those who doesn't see p-books going away entirely, but rather becoming more of a niche offering. Rather like e-books have been for some time, now that I think about it.

01-08-2007, 05:55 PM	#17
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	Nice blog post by Michael Mace on this subject here: http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.co...t-3-books.html He covers a lot of what we're talking about and makes some interesting observations and predictions.

01-11-2007, 01:51 PM	#18
ekehat Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2006 Device: Sony Reader	nekokami, Regarding the issue of advertising, if it's something like google's ads, I don't think it'd be a problem for me. Those ads don't bother me when I read blogs or other web pages, and I don't see why they should bother me while reading an ebook. I completely agree that the question of how authors are going to be compensated in the future (and that future is beginning right now) is a big problem. Perhaps it warrants a separate discussion.

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