As much as I adore cloud-based work processes and streaming media, my concern is with the viability of our current service providers for the Internet connections. As much as I adore Google Docs (er, Drive), if my connection goes down I'm dead in the water. Same with streaming media.
Where do the pundits (and I mean that complementary) see ISP services headed, as that seems to be the faulty lynch-pin in the system? On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Van <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- Jennifer "Scraps" Walker The Helper Monkey Network http://www.jenniferwalkeronline.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. 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.
