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I think you've forgotten just what things were like even as little as five years ago. The rate of change in publishing today is like the web circa 1992-97.
by cstross 15y ago
I think you've forgotten just what things were like even as little as five years ago.
The rate of change in publishing today is like the web circa 1992-97.
- radicalbyte 15y agoHave you ever read ebooks on a palm? It was pretty obvious to me that that was the future. It needed someone to take the idea seriously for it to become mass market. Amazon did. As, I should add, have O'Reilly.
- cstross 15y agoYes, I have read ebooks on a palm. And on a Psion 5 before that. (I started reading ebooks around 1996-97 and have been banging on about them ever since.) Yes, O'Reilly. Yes also Baen (via Webscription.net). But there wouldn't be a mass ebook market at this point if the big publishing conglomerates -- who produce 80% of the books sold -- weren't on board with ebook publishing.