Hard copy books have to fight?

tim290280 · Aug 17, 2011

I don't know if many have read this article:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-0804-books-20110804,0,3970003.story

I find it rather silly. Don't get me wrong, I love books in all forms, but claiming there needs to be a fight, a dirty fight, to keep books is just absurd. I am yet to meet a book lover who has used a Kindle and not loved it. I can also see they are recycling arguments from 1439, so had to satirise it:
http://thetysonadams.blogspot.com/2011/08/hard-copy-books-need-to-fight.html

What are others thoughts? Just another article exhibiting fear of change? Who didn't love getting the latest Connelly book seconds after it was released?

James D. Macdonald · Aug 17, 2011

They had to fill the column inches to keep the ads from running into each other.

If traditional book publishers want to survive, then their marketing departments better think of a way. And fast.

See also: Major new survey shows conventional publishing is doing just fine

Also: Bookstores seem to be doing okay too.

ebar · Aug 18, 2011

Nonsense, the printed book is not going away, certainly not the next twenty years. Sure the e-reader is going to nibble in but let’s look to the music industry, vinyl records - a basically 19th century technology - still exists, people will still pay and play their music on this format. So no, books in dead tree format aren't about to disappear.

Hard copy books have to fight?

tim290280

James D. Macdonald

Your Genial Uncle

ebar