Re: iBooks

On 2010-07-18 08:28:22 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh said:

On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:17:41 +0100, David Kennedy
<davidkennedy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

SteveH wrote:

Seems the digital book market is being afflicted by the same issues as
the digital magazine market - there's no real price incentive to trade
printed for electronic media.


Seems to be the same attitude that the manufacturers had when CDs first
appeared; "grab the punter by the wallet an squeeze, surely he'll come
back for more."

Charlie Stross, currently one of my favourite authors and also a
techie and gadget fan, has interesting things to say about the
economics of publishing ebooks.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/05/cmap-9-ebooks.html

Book publishing seems to be done in some odd alternative universe.
--
Chris

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