Are Books Disappearing?
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Re: Are Books Disappearing?
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I hope books never disappear but I also hope that those who don't read will buy a tablet or download an app to be able to read interactively.
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Well, firstly, I think that even in such a scenario, the publishers, who will be spending next to nothing distributing e-copies of books, will no longer be able to hyper-inflate the prices of these books. I think most people want to be honest and buy their books, but just like in the music industry, prices will have to come down to a more reasonable, affordable level (on the e-book front).SilentWords wrote:With the Amazon Kindle and Sony Readers becoming more and more popular, the realization that printed books will become non-existent is becoming more palatable. You can buy a book on Kindle for $10 in some cases, whereas you'd have to spend at least $25 for a book in print... the prices of the Kindles will drop, and people will start to buy them more, and pretty soon people will start to sell pirated copies for free. Authors will get paid less, and pretty soon, they won't want to write anymore... their printed works will be replaced with free downloadable versions and cheaper copies.
That's just my opinion... what are yours?
That, or like what is happening with kickstarter, you'll be able to support your favorite author, and help them to publish their work.
Something is bound to change, but I don't think it will be all bad.
But having said this, I don't think that traditional books are ever going to completely go away.
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But the published authors, their books are typically the same price or, in some cases, even MORE expensive in the e-book format than they are in paperback. I don't know how many times I've been flabbergasted because I book I wanted for my Kindle or my Nook was MORE expensive than the paperback.
The thing is, there's just something about books - physical books - with the pages and the ink and holding it and seeing rows of neatly shelved books in your personal library - I don't know if that will ever die...
And if the demand for a book is high - publishers can charge just as much for the ebook as they can for the physical book - and we will pay it, because we want to read it THAT BAD. As long as there are avid readers, there will be paid authors, and physical, printed books - that's what I think anyways. UNLESS paper becomes an endangered resource... .but that's a whole different conversation.