Jeff Jarvis over at buzzmachine.com was published in today’s Guardian Unlimited Books section commenting on the future of books. It’s nice to see that there are more and more voices addressing the inevitability of changes that the book publishing industry. Much like the music industry, book publishing must embrace the trend to be relavent in the as the continued emergence of the "digital lifestyle" unfolds. Jeff say’s…
"We need to kill the book to save books. Now relax. I’m not suggesting
burning books, nor replacing them with electronic gizmos in some
paperless future of fable and fantasy. Instead, I’m merely arguing that
the book is an outdated means of communicating information. And thanks
to the searchable, connected internet, books could be so much more."
To many publishers and a great deal of readers, this is considered heresy. At least we can further the conversation…
