Comedy | November 25, 2009 | 4 comments

eBooks Vs. Books: A publishing smackdown

source: http://www.knowyourmoney.co.uk/ebooks-vs-books-a-publishing-smackdown/

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There's a fight brewing this Christmas between the good old traditional book and the flashy newcomer: the eReader. The humble, low-tech book has been the heavyweight champ of the publishing arena for millennia, but technological advances have seen eReaders gain considerable ground over recent years, and products such as the Amazon Kindle, the Sony Reader and their ever-growing legion of competitors are poised to feature on many a must-have gadget list come the festive season.
http://www.knowyourmoney.co.uk/ebooks-vs-books-a-publishing-smackdown/
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4 comments // eBooks Vs. Books: A publishing smackdown

  • tommytripper
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      tommytripper  

    • give me a book any day of the week... i rather enjoy coming home and sitting down in my personal all be it humble but growing library of books (just picked up two sets of encyclopedias this past week one from 1956 and the other from 1982) (or the seven dictionaries i have one from 1922) walking by my two hundred or so books and knowing that my eyes have grazed over their pages and that printed words lay with in.

      remember that knowledge is power, but the suppression of knowledge and information is far more powerful.

      i like the idea that this information is there, if i want to look at it later... i like the feeling of giving information a home. i have not bought a new book in ten years, i only collect secondhand books...

      after the kindle book zapping joke, i think people should wake up, a printed book is little harder to get rid of then a linked up book system, that can have content erased at the whim of someone.

    • 2 years ago
  • astraleia
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      astraleia  
    • tommytripper:

      Totally agree. Call me old-fashioned, but I rather read from a printed book than from any other source, especially from the computer. I can't seem to concentrate when reading from the computer, and if it's really long I get dizzy...
      But in reality the important thing should be that people read books from whatever source they prefer. So long as the people keep reading...!

    • 2 years ago
  • dusty_red_rivet_head
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      dusty_red_rivet_head  

    • I have a feeling they'll both be obsolete if we're ever able to download books to our phones. Who wants to carry around a full size book/ebook when you can just carry one device? eBooks are just selling right now because they're new, but in a year or two, like with GPS devices, once the newness has worn out, people will want to ditch the extra device and just include it in their phone. One could speculate that all it would take would be for Apple to come out with some sort of well-marketed "iAuthor" program to include in iLife, with an online selling community like iToons, and poof! Bye bye ebooks. They could sell a reader app for the iPhone and port the program for use on WinMo phones. Traditional books, although obsolete, will probably not die out completely for a long time, but I think phones are the wave of the future for mass content distribution.

    • 2 years ago
  • CalgarC
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      CalgarC  

    • E-readers are loaded with DRM and play limited formats.... they Sux and books waste paper... personally i think PDF books or internet based books are just fine

    • 2 years ago
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