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Star Author and Amazon Deal Directly
December 15, 2009
FROM RETAILWIRE:
Book publishers have worried with the advent of electronic publishing and the rise of high-volume outlets that popular authors might cut them out and sign deals directly with the likes of Amazon.com. What does Amazon.com's deal with Stephen Covey mean for the future of book retailing?
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Marshal McLuhan must be smiling down on us from up in Gutenberg's Galaxy, as we witness yet another example of new media (digital readers) displacing old media (paper books).
Paper books will not go away, but they will increasingly take on the status of "art form" rather than commercial communications product. First to fade into electrons will be pulp paperbacks and old public-domain titles, which will be easier, cheaper and much lighter as downloads.
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