Worked late today to add my next essay in the “Future of Publishing” series. This essay is titled, “Will Ebooks Rule?” I felt I had trouble boiling the topic down for a presentation that was concise and yet thorough. Future revisions might help, but some of my thoughts simply have to be saved for a separate essay.
An excerpt:
It is all the rage now to say that ebooks are the future of publishing. There is no better way to make yourself a predictable sage then to proclaim that ebooks herald the demise of paper books, and in a decade we’ll see scarcely a printed book around. Or something like that. While I have gone on the record to say that we are in the middle of a publishing revolution, I believe these popular predictions about ebooks are wrong. Ebooks will have a part of the publishing future, but they will not cause paper books to become nearly extinct. Ebooks will surely remain a minority player in the book publishing field. (Read more.)
Read the whole article, and have your say.
