Great points in this blog post. There have been a number of articles about this recently -- one talking about the Indiana move and others. It's going to happen certainly, so publishers will have to rethink their business models ultimately if they want to stay competitive in this new world and ultimately launch new, innovative business models that are unconstrained by the old ones. There was another good post about this here as well: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/02/reinventing-the-kindle-part-ii.html.
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disruption in textbooks
Great points in this blog post. There have been a number of articles about this recently -- one talking about the Indiana move and others. It's going to happen certainly, so publishers will have to rethink their business models ultimately if they want to stay competitive in this new world and ultimately launch new, innovative business models that are unconstrained by the old ones. There was another good post about this here as well: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/02/reinventing-the-kindle-part-ii.html.