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I suspect Nourry and perhaps other Big 5 executives are somewhat mystified at the success of these "stupid" ebooks, having expected any challenge to come only from enhanced "smart" ebooks. At last years Frankfurt book fair Caroline Reidy, CEO of S&S, said: Quote:
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Per their Jan 2018 report the ebook is far from dead. Outselling the printed books in most areas of fiction considerably. The big dollars in printed books is in school books and children's books along with recipe books from what I can see. An interesting article. |
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Music seems to make subscription and buy work side by side. I don't think it's an either or situation. Some people like to own, other don't really care. |
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When I read a novel, I don't need pictures to show me what I'm reading about (or, give me a graphic novel, and make the picture an integral part of the medium - that's perfectly fine as well; but "adapting" a novel to a graphic format isn't just about drawing the characters and action). And I certainly don't want moving pictures to distract me from my reading. |
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If you think they were prepared to deal with e-books, enhanced or no, I think you are giving them too much credit.
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He's obviously never used a recent ereader. My Paperwhite, purchased back in 2013, can look up words in dictionaries and do many other "smart" things (even more if I used wifi).
One function I frequently use is: if a character was introduced at the beginning of the novel, dropped, then turns up again, I find myself thinking "who is this, I know the name, but can't remember who she is?" Then I can tap the name, search in the book and find the first instance (every instance in fact) of the name; I go to the first, find out the basic details then press the backward pointing arrow at the top to go back to the page I was reading. People who use wifi can get little bios of each character in some books, and many other features such as a list of words which have been looked up in the past. The quick tap dictionary check enables me to obtain the EXACT meaning of words of which I know the GENERAL meaning, thereby making my vocabulary more precise. I don't call that stupid. My Sony 505, still going strong, has a great font, but not these 'smart' features. Who says ereaders are dumb? Not those who use them! Last edited by BookCat; 03-02-2018 at 07:44 PM. |
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And to return to a theme from earlier posts (I haven't looked at this thread for a while), it is becoming more and more difficult to buy a paper book again, event recent ones, as the delay between first publishing a book and pulping all those available has shortened drastically. Also, non-fiction books with a limited readership are expensive and have very limited runs, so when I was aware of one I wanted I bought it immediately even if I knew I wouldn't be able to read it in the near future. That applies to e-books nowadays. And an e-publisher going belly-up means a book becomes unavailable, even for its author to republish, for years, and this happens frequently enough. This is compounded by the fact that many publishers take on only new books, not reprints - which seems to fit the general public's taste. Luckily some do reprint "modern classics", and some books I'd despaired of finding do find their way back - not all of them though. I hope it'll end like music. I remember all the prophets of doom when CDs appeared. Over the years most of my vinyls became available, though not all, and the width of choice increased drastically as CDs, then emusic allowed very niche segments to prosper. |
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