Closing of the Rocky Mountain Daily News: Similar scenes ahead for change-proof publishers of paper books?
Note: I suspect that the News was much more progressive, in adapting to the Net, than many book publishers, which have yet to fully appreciate interactivity and other advantages of e-books.
(Via Read/Write Web.)
February 27th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Print. It is DEAD.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1156973/Thousands-scramble-free-books-Amazon-supplier-abandons-warehouse.html
eBooks will quickly die too if they keep thinking PRINT prices for them.
February 27th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Behind this newspaper death theres the an old process because for a few years the tv network have spended way more cash on journalism then the newspapers and now the newspapers are loosing their one edge to online archives they tend to close down, another factor is that many newspapers is really just mirror copies of hundreds of other newspapers kept alive because distribution almost had to be local.
It of cause tell the tale that people do read on the nesserily bode well for a cash rich ebook industry. It’s also interesting to observe that most of the lost readers are leaving for online resources run bu non newspaper sources i.e. tv and radio broadcasting companies.
the ebook angle of this might be that the codex format may actually wind up loosing a lot of ground when the switch is made and the publishing business can only think in terms of codex’s to be sold, they dont like the radio or TV business, think in other terms anymore.