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18 Mar 2010The iPad has finally landed and we are getting ready to embrace this new trend. Whether we like it or not and whether publishers like it or not, gadgets like the iPad will keep coming at us and eventually everyone will own some sort of tablet and/or eBook reader to help us through our complicated days.

But that doesn’t that we’ll simply stop reading books, does it? Does it matter if we actually read a real book which took an awful lot of effort to be printed and delivered to us or if we read the digital version of it?
It doesn’t matter to you and me, the consumers, but on the long run it could hurt publishers where they care most, their pockets. Because eBooks will be a lot cheaper to buy on an iPad or on a Kindle and that’s not a secret anymore. And at some point in the distant future writers could decide to simply ditch the middleman and deal directly with Amazon or Apple and with anyone else that has a digital eBook store.
Why am I telling you all this? Well I’m just preparing you for this video below which tells the whole story of books, publishers, iPad-like devices, reading, culture and a whole lot more.
In order to see the magic of this smart video you’ll have to watch it completely. Although I do appreciate the point it tries to make and although I do love reading paperback books whenever I have the time, I will tell the creator of this amazing video that a book, no matter how good it feels in my hands, will never let me browse through location-based services available to me at all times and it will not let me reconnect with friends and families when I don’t feel like reading. That’s what smartphones, tablets and computers will do for me while also letting me read various books.
What about you? Should you have to choose between a tablet/eBook reader and books, what would you get and why?
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3 Responses to Apple’s iPad & Other eReaders/Tablets to Bring the End of Publishing Unless They Don’t [Are Publishers Really Scared of eBook Readers Like the iPad & the Kindle?]
fortwynt
March 20th, 2010 at 12:03 am
This is the first time that a 3rd party has a really good shot. Most of your ideas are OK but I am not sure America is ready for them. I think that the abortion law would not help much. People used hangers and risked there life before so they would again. Or they could go to another country to get one.
It would be unreasonable.
Not that I believe people should get them but we do have an over population problem as it is. Also you would have to decide if the morning after pill was like an abortion and decide to outlaw that.
I understand what your saying about different races and different categories and we all should just be Americans but then it would take the some ones right away from them to be called what they want.
Also the reason people in movies make so much is because of sales and marketing. Are you going to put a limit on sales and marketing so they don't make as much as teachers? There are many people in sales that make more then teachers, many of them have to be away from home for long periods and have extreme sacrifice.
I think that we should have a group in each state who find out what the people want in there state and local communities.
Having open debates and voting on what they want.
People in some communities might need one thing more then other communities. We need to get actual working American people involved, not just the political ones.
Attorney
March 27th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
Very hard to say, but if you consider than for every 1 Kindle you can put thousands of books on it, yet for paper: 1 book = 1 book. I can see how going paperless is a way better option. We just need to keep finding better ways of recycling our old technology into new stuff. After that it will be a nobrainer.
I bought my Kindle, this is a decent review from someone that has one.
Mike P
June 6th, 2010 at 2:49 am
I own the Kindle, so let me give you some of my opinions. It is a great device, and I've to say I love it! I think I've read over 30 books with my Kindle, no glitches so far! And since Kindle books are cheaper than actual books, I think I've saved around $120 on buying books already.
One of the reasons I love my Kindle is that it has helped me improve a lot on my efficiency and utilize my time. Before I have the Kindle, waiting time like when I'm waiting for friends or waiting for shuttle bus or some thing like that is simply wasted. Now I just need to bring the Kindle 2 along with me, and all my favorite books are inside it. Another thing I like the most is the text-to-speech function, which means I can "read" books without even holding or looking at the Kindle. Now I like to use this function when I've myself busy on some boring things, say when I'm on the step machine or doing some housework…
I like reading and at the beginning I did miss a bit on the feeling of reading books. But now I love to hold the Kindle, the e-ink seems to work very well, it is really like reading books… Now I often read with the Kindle for several hours but I don't feel tired… And I now prefer to manage all books inside the Kindle rather than my never big enough bookshelf… And like to do bookmarking, annotation, dictionary lookup without any additional thing but a Kindle.
There are quite a lot of free books (tips: if you're outside the U.S. all the books will have US$2 added, but when you choose to download to computer when you check out, the $2 will be waived, and you can copy the books to your Kindle through USB cable), and many Kindle books, magazines and newspapers are cheaper than the actual paper version. I remember I read these reviews about the benefits of the Kindle when I decided to buy it:
Hope it helps