Wednesday, March 17, 2010

The Coming Death of Paperback

With the new Apple book store, Google Books online, there is a lot of question about the future of paper books. Though they are bad for the environment, reading a paper book is currently still the major medium of literature. The major question is, will that change? Will Barnes and Nobles suffer the same future that Blockbuster is currently facing? How will publishing companies deal with the digitization of literature? Macmillan textbooks has already started to go digital. There are over 10 different kinds of digital eReaders currently available.

New technology is now available that can scan a 200 page book in under a minute.


The UK branch of Dorling Kindersley Books released this video during DK sales conference to help answer some of the future questions in publishing.




Sources: [Boing Boing] [The Wire]

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