22 April 2010
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New Yorker: The iPad, the Kindle, and the future of books
Great roundup from the New Yorker on the current state of the publishing business and how it’s adapting [or not] to the electronic formats and distribution with the Kindle, the iPad and the likes:
Publishing exists in a continual state of forecasting its own demise; at one major house, there is a running joke that the second book published on the Gutenberg press was about the death of the publishing business.
It’s not that bad, but the publishers don’t seem enthusiastic to change the business model.
We miss you and your siblings. You should come and hang out.