E-books causing seismic shift in publishing
Commentary: Are publishers more prepared than music honchos?
by Therese Poletti
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — One doesn’t have to be in Manhattan this week at BookExpo America to figure out that the electronic book is causing a seismic shift in the publishing industry.
Some other events in recent weeks have provided further evidence that book publishing — as the music business already experienced — is being turned quickly upside down by the growth of digital books and e-readers.
Former Microsoft executive, fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, and author of More Than Human