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Ebooks are a major disruption in distribution efficiency. In that respect, the move from pulps to paperback was a step backwards because pulps were distributed via newspaper and magazine channels that were much faster than book channels. That remains true today. And it is an under-appreciated advantage of digital: the time to bring a title to market is much shorter. A tradpub book typically takes about two years to reach the market after acceptance whereas small digital publishers can bring the title to market within weeks or even days. (Pulps worked on a 60-90 day cycle much like comics do today.) Another under-appreciated advantage (for readers and authors, anyway) is the freedom from the page count restrictions of pbooks. Short stories can come to market individually, long narratives don't need to be restructured and either padded or broken up into series to reach market. A 30k word novella and a 200k word mega novel are both equally easy to distribute. Over time I think this will be defining even in markets that today are hostile to digital. Ebooks are impacting the entire supply chain in different ways for each segment. And it is revitalizing/boosting a lot of niches ranging from short fiction to entire genres and subgenres some of which have minimal market access via print. Last edited by fjtorres; 03-16-2017 at 07:37 AM. |
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Re the weight issue, I can second that! Taking sufficient reading material to cover a 2 week beach holiday when you can read 2-3 mass market paperbacks a day was always a struggle for me. Once I got a Palm m500 along with a set of SD cards, lugging a decent selection became easy (although the cradle & charger weighed easily as much as a paperback), and I still keep a dedicated ereader for that reason (and the weight of the ereader and charger is less than the Palm kit).
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Good point about graphic novels. I've tried them on Kindle and it just doesn't work IMO.
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I'm still betting on the cultural differences myself.
The role of pulps and paperback originals seems to be filled to a large extent by manga. Which, "curiously enough" is going digital with a vengeanfe, ereaders or not: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...crease/.113129 Quote:
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I feel that Japanese are very traditional people who like hold books in their hands. Contrary to what foreigners might think, Japanese are very stubborn about new technologies. Not to mention the lack of ebooks available. I tried to find epubs for books I want to read (Battle Royale, Higashino Keigo, Akutagawa Ryunosuke and some light novels) and I can't find single one epub!!
This seems to be similar to the situation of digital music in Japan. I wonder if it's because of the Japanese industries' irrational fear of piracy... AFAIK Japanese aren't really that keen on pirating, but the anti-piracy effort is quite aggressive there |
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I want to read them in Japanese. There are only 6 books by Higashino on the Japanese store and they are not what I am looking for. There is indeed a compilation of Akutagawa's works on Kobo store though so I'm taking my words back. |
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I dunno about this. The last time I was there it seemed like everybody was reading web serials on their phone.
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Online novels by indie writers is an entirely different genre, imo. Japanese still insist on buying tree books for published novels, CDs for music and sending faxes in formal correspondence.
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I don't think very many Japanese read books on a cell phone. The publishing industry is different in Japan than in the USA and is very vibrant; that is, there are many more bookstores, both new and used, and it is much easier to buy a book or find one you want. I don't think many Japanese buy books online either, they probably would rather go to a bookstore and browse. I would bet that the average Japanese reads a lot more than the average American too. Different culture.
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