While print-book sales continue to slide, all measures seem to indicate that e-book sales will continue shooting skyward. Still, what is “good” for publishing is either unknown or simply
being ignored. E-books – released alongside print editions, or as e-only
books, or shorter forms like Kindle Singles – remain just outside the
traditional books business, sharing Venn Diagram circles with the
suspicious kingdoms of Apple, Google, Amazon (which makes the Kindle)
and Indigo (which still sells books along with those candies and coffee
mugs, and launched the e-reader Kobo). Simultaneously a
corporate-driven, profit-maximizing threat and a big possibility for new
sales strategies (and new kinds of authors and works), e-books are
currently being marketed and promoted … badly.
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