Re: Kindle and its peers

**D* G* <g*@gmail.com>**

There's all kinds of speculation about the what, who and how of all this
e-reader stuff.  The big fight is about to launch - in that Amazon's Kindle
has a proprietary source code while B&N and Google (and all small
publishers) are using open source epub format.  The new reader will be
epub.  It's like Beta and VHS squaring off a few years ago.  So you lays
down your money and you takes your choices. :-)

And who and what will use it - what readers will want to read, how they'll
want to read it - is open season and open experimentation.  So yes, you can
expect to see newspapers, television news (why not- they're already doing
text feeds?), magazines etc etc all lining up for a bit of your attention.
Costs of production are reduced - no more printing presses - so why wouldn't
they.  Another economic model is being born as we speak.  And the pundits
are falling over themselves to predict every possible outcome.

Itunes has pretty much established the price of a bit of music is .99.
Amazon has pretty much put the price of an ebook maxed out at 9.99 So where
do magazines/newspapers etc fit into all this when they don't have to have a
press run?  And how will they design for this small format etc etc.  Way
more questions than answers and I'm sure the publishers are trying to sort
it out.

 What fun! LOL.

Doug

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Donna Dawson <donna@icangarden.com> wrote:

> Yes, I found some other articles today and put them up in my twitter  :)
> not one person has said anything about this except you...??
>
>
> Donna Dawson, Master Gardener
>
> Director Region 7 Garden Writers Association
> I wouldn't begin to guess the answer to your question but the issue just
> got
> more complicated by the new B & N competition to the Kindle:
>
>
> http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/10/20/the-barnes-noble-nook-one-ste
> p-better-than-kindle/<http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/10/20/the-barnes-noble-nook-one-ste%0Ap-better-than-kindle/>
>
>
>
> --
Doug Green
Editor-in-Chief,
SGF Publishing
http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com
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