Look Out for eBooks from Non-Publishers
Here’s a bit of food for thought, not really news. It’s no secret that media companies want to get in on eBooks–just this week, Conde Nast and the AP made it clear that they’re going to have cool stuff on iPad when it launches. And, whatever one’s complaints or worries about iPad (it’s just a big iPhone, etc.), it is going to be the first mass-market device that takes the Internet to a portable screen that’s totally comfortable to view, and connects it to content that’s been downloaded to hardware.
So, here’s a prediction: in the next couple of years, once there are lots of iPads and other tablets all over, once the prices have come down, once the wars over pricing, DRM and file formats for eBooks are somewhat more settled, look for other kinds of media companies–not publishers, but companies with huge archives of content that perhaps they haven’t...
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