Why publishing will soon be dead
Amazon’s Kindle is not alone now. Google and Sony e-bookreader have teamed up to take some pie of the ebook market. Their combined effort will see close to 500k books being available on Sony’s e-book reader. All these books as part of deal between Google and Sony e-bookreader will be available for absolutely nothing.
Amazon’s Kindle 2 costs around $359 and Sony’s ebookreader costs close to $269. All ebooks which are today available on Kindle costs something. But these prices are nothing compared to price of printed versions.If one just browse through the Amazon’s page, one can find that many of e-books have been priced relatively much lower than the printed versions.
But why ebooks are going to catch on. In United States all reputed printed Newspapers are going through worst of their times. The reasons are many. But one of the predominant reason for closing down of many Newspapers is popularity of blogs and online news aggregators. Internet has provided a forum where the news get refreshed on 24×7 basis while for a Newspaper one has to wait for the other day.
Generation of our times doesn’t have the patience. They just can not wait for next day to get the news when every happening news is available on real time basis.
Kindle 2 is amazingly sleek and handy. It can be taken along on flight, travelling or to your bed. It can hold virtually 1500 books with about 1.4GB storage. It doesn’t need a computer to download the books. Similar is the case with Sony’s e-book reader.
We may see many other players entering in to the e-book reading market soon as the awareness on cutting of trees begins to builds up. Time is not far when all schools and colleges textbooks will be available online and students will be owning their respective e-book readers.
Publishing industry is going to be worst hit. This profession will have to evolve and find some other ways for their survival. Clock has just begun ticking.
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