I bought a paperback book in NY for $13. The same title, in slightly
different appearance, sells here in Geraldton for $36! Perhaps that's
the threat.
Reg
On 28/01/2010, at 3:35 PM, Rod wrote:
The distribution rights have to be sorted out, is my guess. That's
why the Kindle's offering in Australia is low compared to the US. I
reckon the digital distribution will be a nightmare, as the bricks
and mortar bookstores would have seen how Apple changed the music
landscape with iTunes. Expect a humdinger battle!!
Seeya
Rod :-)
Ps Go Dockers Ronni!!
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On 28/01/2010, at 3:22 PM, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
http://www.apple.com/au/ipad/features/
"One of the selling points of the device, iBooks, which allows
users to access an array of e-books and digital textbooks, is not
listed as a feature on the iPad page on Apple Australia's website.
This indicates it will not be available to Australian users when
the device is launched here in March. A note on the US site says
iBooks is "available in the U.S. only"."
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On 28/01/2010, at 1:32 PM, Rod <[email protected]> wrote:
As soon as the distribution rights are sorted with books (and what
a minefield that will be!!), I can see schools such as PLC
ditching laptops altogether and going for ipads and the keyboard
adapter kit. Ditching hefty textbooks will be a boon for kids
with sore backs!
Watch the explosion of educational software come out.....great
time to be a cocoa developer :-)
Seeya
Rod :-)
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On 28/01/2010, at 1:13 PM, Chris Griffiths <[email protected]>
wrote:
Mmm… not sure.
I guess I wasn't talking about the romantic young couple. Yes, I
can see the need for the butter stained romantic hard bound book.
You could always use a stained digital background on your iPad ;)
I was talking about the commercial books; your paperbacks, your
business books & especially your student text books (90% of the
books sold in the newsagency). Not to mention the newspapers and
mags.
Also, technology accelerates. Yes, it will be an interesting
future.
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On 28/01/2010, at 12:55 PM, Mark Secker wrote:
I can people using products such as these to replace magazines,
periodicals and factual repository books (dictionaries/
encyclopedias etc)... Our “normal computers, both desktop and
laptop have already been doing this over the last 15 years...
Project Gutenberg and Google books along with ewer devices like
the iPhone & touch and Kindle and now the iPad will accelerate
this...
But... Don’t look at books dying not in our lifetime, probably
not even in the long term future....
There is a very visceral connection with books that no hand
held device will emulate.
Try imagine a young couple punting down the river Cam reading
Wordsworth, Byron and Keats from their Kindle ...
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair'd the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her f.. OH! FUDGE!!... Batteries gone
and snuffed it already
And “ an iPad stained with butter drips from crumpets" just
doesn’t strike me as a memorable quote
Maybe in 10 years time you won’t see magazines for sale, nor
the airport lounge pulp fiction paperbacks.
Maybe in 20 years books will return to being the rare “prestige
product” that they once were, with only the “classics”, both
modern and old, will be put to press.. and hard bound.. Ready to
soak up butter drips from crumpets.
On 28/01/10 11:12 AM, "Chris Griffiths" <[email protected]>
wrote:
I agree with you Paul.
It won't be long before traditional print will be a rarity
especially with the protests around chopping down forests and
greenhouse warming.
Offset print will decline rapidly. I have even seen it in the
last few years. Printers that were running 24hrs a day are now
running the presses a lot less and some have even stopped some
presses. Now if you know about these presses you know how much
it costs to stop and start them!
Yes, maybe we will have a paperless society sooner than we
think. Especially when we have the advent of the iPad and
obviously other pads.
Regards Chris Griffiths
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On 28/01/2010, at 10:54 AM, Paul Weaver wrote:
I suspect that for developed countries there is a very good
chance that the iPad and Apple’s enormous marketing strength
is finally going to radically change media distribution for
books, magazines, newspapers and movies. It’s been a
technological change predicted for a while, but this brilliant
invention will do the trick. Most cinemas and regular
bookshops, even in this remote neck of the woods are probably
doomed, same with video rental outlets. Print newspapers which
underestimate the potential of the new technology will surely
fail. I’m thinking it might take less than five years. The
introduction of the iPad is a seminal event.
Paul. ;)
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