One of the interesting things to come out of the Do Lectures was the confirmation that things will never be the same again in the publishing world, at least.....
As the strength of Amazon increases, bookshops are falling by the wayside, and only the mostr resilient survive, largely by innovating away from books or at least adding value to the book buying experience. the other thing that's happening is that a new constituency (at least, it is partly new) of book readers who want to read their books on their Kindle, iPad or even iPhone. Strange, but that is what they apparently like to do... so publishers have to adapt. Masses of small publishers are banging out PDFs of their books and hoping that some people might want to read them on their gadgets and maybe even pay for them! I'm being a bit more circumspect. I have already set up a Paypal system for those who want to buy their books online -- and now I'm looking seriously at Enhanced Ebook formats. I have a cunning plan -- watch this space.
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