http://www.economist.com/news/essays/21623373-which-something-old-and-powerful-encountered-vault
Thanks for pointing it out Rosie. I always enjoy reading articles like this.
I think this chart says it all about the future of digital publishing.
The development of the Kindle ebook format is not noticeable to the naked eye:
Perhaps Amazon's success can be explained by that they charge too much? I've never bought a Kindle book and never will, and have only occasionally bought print books from Amazon. The price is usually better elsewhere.
That's an interesting article. I wonder when Amazon was developing the Kindle, if the 'tablet world' was still in its infancy. I mainly use my PageWhite for novels, the iPad Kindle for more concrete reading (copying snippets, etc).
There was a special on Japanese TV a few days ago that was a shocker. It showed Japanese packing their libraries. Literal lines in some cases. I thought the lines were maybe a special display, new book, author or similar. Nope. Just that the library was full of people. Then I thought it was the WIFI (as it is here for visitors at our library). Nope again. They're literally reading books. The cameras documented the evidence!
I'm still wondering about this. I wonder if a library offers 'scanning' a subject more easily. Social. And as the Economist noted, 'books' are very efficient.
I'm still wondering about the future of Amazon's economic model with selling e-books. They have had a few quarters of making money since 2001 when they first turned a profit, but on the whole they are not making a profit. Is that sustainable in perpetuity? We all complain about Logos's prices, but perhaps Logos has a better idea of what it takes to stay in business. Amazon's volume is tremendous, but selling a billion books and losing pennies on each one of them is worse than selling a hundred thousand and making a few pennies on each.
No matter what their strategy, it's better to stay off Amazon.
