E-book economics
Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media has some interesting things to say about the pricing and distribution of e-books. He has firsthand experience with digital books through his involvement with Safari Books Online and makes some cogent points about how people use electronic media and how pricing is likely to work. He begins:
The Amazon Kindle has excited a lot of comment from people who have long wanted portable electronic access to books. Amazon has put together a lot of the pieces that makes this holy grail seem reachable, even if not yet truly achieved. But in reading the commentary of some of the enthusiastic boosters of eBooks, I’m struck by just how much wishful thinking they display
(Incidentally, O’Reilly uses “eBook”, others use “e-book”. I have been using the hyphenated form but I think I’ll follow O’Reilly in the future.)
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