Kindle
Saw the Amazon Kindle at a trade show in Orlando last month. There is something cool about text coming over the ether in radio waves, I must say. And the view screen experience was pleasant.
The fellow showing it to me was a publisher. He said it was great because it was highly profitable, compared to a physical book. I wonder..
..It is hard to Xerox and entire book. It is not hard to copy a whole digital book.. and this mere facts seems to diminish its value in the eyes of the audience.
Reading Paul Krugman recently: he writes that ‘bit by bit everything that can be digitized will be digitized, making intellectual property ever easier to copy and ever harder to sell for more a nominal price.’ The recipe for a business is, like the Grateful Dead, to sell t-shirts.
When the web first happened I did business plans that showed how trade magazines could make money with the new medium that supplemented the old medium. Little did I know .. the web killed the trade magazine. – Jack Vaughan
The fellow showing it to me was a publisher. He said it was great because it was highly profitable, compared to a physical book. I wonder..
..It is hard to Xerox and entire book. It is not hard to copy a whole digital book.. and this mere facts seems to diminish its value in the eyes of the audience.
Reading Paul Krugman recently: he writes that ‘bit by bit everything that can be digitized will be digitized, making intellectual property ever easier to copy and ever harder to sell for more a nominal price.’ The recipe for a business is, like the Grateful Dead, to sell t-shirts.
When the web first happened I did business plans that showed how trade magazines could make money with the new medium that supplemented the old medium. Little did I know .. the web killed the trade magazine. – Jack Vaughan
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