E-Book Stupidity. Apparently.

posted by Rob on February 3, 2009 11:37 AM

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"You'd think that publishers would have learned from the travails of the music and movie folks, and they did, in a way. Unfortunately, what they learned was fear." - John Siracusa

Seemingly just because the future hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it's been cancelled. It's still on its way. Read more about it here.

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Call me a cynic, but to me the important difference between the digitisation of music and books is that the former happened despite the best attempts of the industry to stop it, whereas the latter is being hyped to seeming oblivion.

I really don't think we're there yet.

Posted by: RobC on February 3, 2009 12:10 PM


Funny -- I caught him on Future Tense on NPR this morning. He pretty much blamed publishers for being greedy sticks in the mud.

Posted by: Anna on February 3, 2009 05:50 PM

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