Still not sure what to turn this blog into - especially since my audience generally consists of my parents (currently living with them), my sister (too busy being a senior in college to update her own blog), and my aunt (I suppose I should just call you more often?).
Edited to add: Laura, I apologize. Are you still reading too?
Anyway, for now I'd like to share an article I found through LinkedIn:
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2012/11/02/why-e-book-distribution-is-completely-and-utterly-broken-and-how-to-fix-it/
There's plenty of good points made, although people have been analyzing ebooks for quite a while now and making many good points - some of them contradictory.
I guess the main idea to focus on is that the ebook is something new. It won't work like print books or online music sales, though both can be used to inform how we shape the market of this new product.
And I agree that DRM often causes more problems than it solves - and that proprietary formatting is little more than an egotistical, unnecessary complication. How would you like it if you could only buy movies made specifically for your brand of DVD player and television? Or if you could only get gas from the dealer that sold you your car? Or - so long as we're making comparisons - could only get books that were compatible with/sold by the furniture brand that made your bookshelf?
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Part of why I still like real books... but I still think someone should make the doohickey Laura and I came up with that lets you buy the real book and the ebook together for one price.
ReplyDeleteAs for what this blog could be, have you heard of http://www.100words.com ? You could do the same thing only writing here instead of there, at least until you get back into writing. I was going to try it this month but I found out about it too late... also, the minor issue of exams...
It would make sense, wouldn't it? Unfortunately, the industry doesn't seem to be heading that way. It should though.
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