33 1/3: Real Books About Music
Hopefully, a lot of you are thinking about the future of paper books these days. Books are objects. E-Books aren't (although the iPad and the Kindle reader, and many other electronic tablet type thingies, are pretty amazing pieces of technology). There's just no question that digital text is going to have a massive impact on the publishing world's business planning for the next decade. It seems pretty clear that paper-based books are going to shift in significance for people. By that I mean they're going to become more valuable and more meaningful -- although, it's likely that sales will be dwarfed by e-books. I predict that you're not going to be able to find 1st-Run books in paper form at bookstores and libraries by 2020, but once a book "proves" itself in the marketplace (electronically), you're going to be able to buy it as a hard copy in real space. You're going to have two options: 1) a print-on-demand (POD) edition that may or may not ...