The two things Cary mentioned are exactly what I was thinking of. I've been saying for a while that it's the dream of content-providers (movie & TV studios, etc) to convert everyone to receiving content through a streaming model. No physical media as "middle man" (DVD disk; CD; etc). That would give the creators/distributors greater control over that material--much harder to illegally (or legally!) copy movies, music, etc. I am sensing everything will be streaming/cloud-based in the next few years.
And yes, publishing has changed dramatically in just the last 1-2 years. I just did a podcast about this last week, at RevolutionSF. Mass-market paperbacks are dying. But I'm seeing a change at the higher end, too: Just a year ago, the small press I own sold about 20 times as many trade paperbacks as e-books in a given month. As of January, we are selling about 40-50 times as many e-books a month as trade paperbacks. It's been astonishing. It has been suggested that our SF-oriented books naturally reach a more tech-savvy crowd, and that that explains the sudden shift. We are putting out another football book in a few months, and I'm anxious to see if *that* audience buys it more in paperback or e-book. --Van www.whiterocketbooks.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/theuniquegeek/-/lSnKYjHy3UMJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
