Showing posts with label Kindle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kindle. Show all posts

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Change or Die, Books vs. E-Books

In 2006, John Updike spoke at the Book Expo event in Washington, DC warning booksellers they were going to be threatened by a "liquid book" and stating "books are intrinsic to our human identity." Welcome Kindle, Sony Reader, and iPad.

Newspapers and music companies have already transitioned from print and CDs to online media. And now publishers are being forced to "change or die" according to The Digital Emperor Has No Clothes.

But, are we ready to give up books? Our generation is stuck between the age without Web 2.0 and the age where Web 2.0 controls people's lives. Although the idea of having instant access to thousands of books, newspapers, and music all in the same place is appealing; I still like being able to hold a book and flip the pages.

Any one else out there going to miss good old paperback books?