Richard R. Hershberger <
rrh...@acme.com> wrote
> Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy <
tausti...@gmail.com> wrote
>> Lynn McGuire <
l...@winsim.com> wrote
>>> Dorothy J Heydt wrote
>>>> Lynn McGuire <
l...@winsim.com> wrote
>>> I keep on hoping that B&N is going to move to a POD
>>> system in their stores (and Amazon also for their ebooks
>>> only) but it looks like that ship has sailed.
>> You're both outliers, and will be part of an ever shrinking segment
>> of the market. It will suck to be you, not too many years in the future.
> My prediction is that paper books will continue indefinitely as a niche
> market.
Certainly going to be interesting to watch.
If it gets to be too much of a niche market it will just be by print on
demand tho.
Cant see anyone bothering to kill that off, but we might see the
demand get so low that few bother to keep being able to do that.
> Not like LPs are today, where some albums are released on
> LP in some combination of niche marketing and gimmick,
> but most are not. Rather, as print on demand books.
> This technology already exists.
Yeah, but its not trivial technology with the binding, so it remains to
be seen how long the demand will continue to make it worthwhile.
> I have several old and obscure books I bought this way,
> for roughly the cost of a standard book, and I am by
> and large perfectly happy with the product.
I much prefer ebooks myself and am irritated by some like Gitta
Sereny who appear to have some objection to the ebook format.
> Soon enough, new and non-obscure books will
> be nearly entirely purchased in ebook format.
Going to be interesting to see if that is true. Likely.
> But so long as there is a market for paper books, it will be
> easy enough to run them through print on demand as well.
> It won't be available in retail stores like Lynn had hoped,
> but that is what Amazon is for. The underlying principle
> here is that new formats rarely actually kill off old formats,
> the continued survival of radio and movies despite the
> existence of television being the usual example.
Its going to be interesting to see what happens
with newspapers and magazines in that regard.
Going to be interesting to see how
long physical format music lasts too.
I expect physical movie film wont be around much longer.