Sunday, November 09, 2008
Digital revolution comes to printed word
"A survey published in conjunction with the Frankfurt Book Fair last month showed that 40 percent of book publishing professionals thought digital sales, regardless of the format, would surpass the ink-on-paper kind by 2018."
Hmm really? I like e-books, for some applications, I even have made moves into selling ebooks online, so I do appreciate them, but I cannot see them overtaking print within the next decade.
For out of print books, such as the collection at sites such as forgottenbooks.org and Project Gutenberg, the e-book format is a useful way to retain these works, but I cannot see the new book bestseller being bought mainly by download.
Let's see what happens in the next ten years...
"A survey published in conjunction with the Frankfurt Book Fair last month showed that 40 percent of book publishing professionals thought digital sales, regardless of the format, would surpass the ink-on-paper kind by 2018."
Hmm really? I like e-books, for some applications, I even have made moves into selling ebooks online, so I do appreciate them, but I cannot see them overtaking print within the next decade.
For out of print books, such as the collection at sites such as forgottenbooks.org and Project Gutenberg, the e-book format is a useful way to retain these works, but I cannot see the new book bestseller being bought mainly by download.
Let's see what happens in the next ten years...
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