A Comment About
Kindle, iPad, MacMillan, and the Death of a Business Model
February 2, 2010 - 12:00 am
b j deming
2010-02-02 12:33:40
I hope you’re wrong about the physical book being dead. We now have so many examples of early writing — on papyrus, stone, etc. — but if today’s writers start publishing only electronically, then when the power goes out (and in every civilization it does, sooner or later), their words will vanish forever. It will be as though it never existed.
That’s really chilling.
May both Bezos and Jobs win a little bit on this one, for all our sakes.
