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This is what is really frustrating about the article. It spends the entire first half boosting print books like there is something magical about them that preve
by xlm1717 11y ago
This is what is really frustrating about the article. It spends the entire first half boosting print books like there is something magical about them that prevents them from being disrupted like movies and TV were.
>E-books’ declining popularity may signal that publishing, while not immune to technological upheaval, will weather the tidal wave of digital technology better than other forms of media, like music and television.
And only until near the end of the article does it reveal the actual reason why print is far from dead.
>Higher e-book prices may also be driving readers back to paper.
The publishers put print books on life support by artificially inflating the prices of e-books. They are just delaying the inevitable in my opinion.
- jonknee 11y agoNot surprising that print journalists in the publishing hub of the US are rooting for print.
- coliveira 11y agoThere is in fact something magical about printed books :-) Well, not magic, but books are not just the medium of data transfer, they are also integral part of the reading experience. This is unlike music, where it doesn't matter if you're playing the content from a CD or transferring it over the network. The feeling of reading a book will always be different from using a reading device, it doesn't matter how to great the device is. Once the novelty of e-readers wears off, you will start to see a steady-state of sales on paper and other media for books. It seems that it is already happening. I, for example, read books in printed as well as electronic forms. I use e-readers for the convenience, but there are some types of books that don't work in electronic format in my personal opinion - and I think there are lots of people like me.