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Things wordy, geeky, and webbyPublisher Plans to Do Digital Books
Wednesday, December 14th, 2005 at 8:36 AM | 1 commentThanks to the Internet and POD (print on demand) publishing, traditional (or deadwood) publishers are looking for ways to stay alive. The Dallas Morning News has come a long way in mixing the Internet and technology with its newspaper. It has established blogs, references “for more info go to www.xxx.xxx” in its newspaper, and more.
HarperCollins plans to publish digital copies of its books while storing and managing its digital files. I believe this means that the company plans to use search engines to help people find the digital books, but they can only download them from HarperCollins rather than elsewhere.
First thing that came to my mind is how does Amazon play in this? Will HarperCollins allow Amazon to sell its digital books? Amazon already has digital versions of some of the company’s books. HarperCollins and Amazon are in negotiations as the article reports.
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1 comment
I love LOVE LOVE digital books. I have the ultimate of cell phones (does everything but the dishes) and on it I typically have two or three books. Usually one is a novel and one or two are self-help types of books.
It’s great to have the digital version because I can’t very well carry around three books everywhere I go, and sometimes while reading one book I’ll find that I’m not in the mood for that topic or genre. This gives me the option to move to another one.
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