{"id":1213,"date":"2009-04-06T22:47:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T05:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/2009\/04\/06\/ebooks-are-a-gradual-change-for-publishing\/"},"modified":"2009-04-06T22:47:17","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T05:47:17","slug":"ebooks-are-a-gradual-change-for-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/04\/06\/ebooks-are-a-gradual-change-for-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebooks are a Gradual Change for Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the Conversational Reading<\/i><\/a> blog, Scott Esposito<\/i> writes a post called ‘Why EBooks will Change How the Industry Functions<\/a>.’  He’s writing about his reaction to another blogger who wrote a post about ‘Why Ebooks Must Fail<\/i><\/a>.’  I like Esposito’s common sense approach to the subject of ebooks and his confidence that the publishing industry will gradually adapt to them and incorporate them in its business model:<\/p>\n

…as I’ve come to understand the ebook format better and better, I’ve come to believe that it represents more than just a different way of reading. I’m beginning to see that it represents new modes of relations between authors, publishers, and readers, new concepts of books as a commodity, and new concepts of copyright.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I agree.  After all, it’s just words.  It really doesn’t matter how you get them into your head.  I enjoy reading some books off my iPod.  Other books I prefer to read in hardback.  Detective novels I always prefer as paperbacks.  Deciding that the book publishing industry is doomed because of ebooks is just ridiculous.  <\/p>\n

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At the Conversational Reading blog, Scott Esposito writes a post called ‘Why EBooks will Change How the Industry Functions.’  He’s writing about his reaction to another blogger who wrote a post about ‘Why Ebooks Must Fail.’  I like Esposito’s common sense approach to the subject of ebooks and his confidence that the publishing industry will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-publishing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t