Time For Book Publishers To Fight Dirty

chicagotribune.com:

Last month a fellow bibliophile, someone with whom I work at a bookstore in Portland, Ore., described one of Kindle's newest TV commercials. In it, a woman in red struts past her friend who asks where she's going. "I want to get a book that came out today," she says. When he tells her that he does too, she suggests he join her at the bookstore.

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Comments

[Robert Fanney]

01:14 PM on 08/04/2011

Publishers will need to adapt to the ebook. It's here to stay. If they're linking their fates to paper books only, they're not going to do too well.

[BlackJAC]

02:25 PM on 08/04/2011

And yet there's no evidence that E-books won't go the same way as the old pulp magazines, which were humming along really well for a couple of decades and then petered out. Remember bagel shops and Tamagotchis?

[BlackJAC]

01:06 PM on 08/04/2011

One thing they can do is show the Kindle suddenly blacking out while you're at a really good point in the story and have to wait however long it takes to recharge it, whereas the hardcopy book reader is still going strong because all they need is sufficient light from any source.

[Glowcy]

02:09 PM on 08/04/2011

Blacking out because of need to recharge the e-reader is not a good reason to forgo ownership of an e-reader. A good reason to forgo ownership of an e-reader is that we who have bought electronic book content do not really own it and it can be pulled from our 'ownership' at any time. Plus, the content can be revised with or without our knowledge and/or permission.

[BlackJAC]

02:43 PM on 08/04/2011

Along with the spyware/adware/virus infiltration potential. But if the Kindle people think that not having to mark a place in a physical book via dogearing a page is a selling point, then the sudden unwanted powerdown of the Kindle is also a selling point for physical books.