Re: Kindle and its peers

**R* M* M* <r*@comcast.net>**

Doug, I think you probably are right on all of this. However, I'm such  
a traditional reader that I like paper. I like passing on an article  
or book to a friend. It's the mailing costs that are also hard on  
magazines. At least here in the US both book publishers(inventory  
taxes) and magazines(postage) have taken big hits. At one time long  
ago publishing was seen to serve an educational role and they got a  
little break.
Rose Marie Nichols McGee
On Oct 20, 2009, at 4:44 PM, Doug Green wrote:

> 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
>
>

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