IS IT THE DEATH OF TRADITIONAL BOOK PUBLISHING? Some interesting thoughts.

What’s also interesting is that this blog post is by Michael Hyatt, who’s president of my publisher Nelson Current’s parent company, Thomas Nelson (which also published Hugh Hewitt’s book, Blog) and I didn’t know he had a blog until an InstaPundit reader sent me a link.

I think that paper book technology is still hard to beat — much as I love Charles Stross, I didn’t much enjoy reading his Accelerando on the computer and liked it much better when I reread it in paper form — but that’s book-delivery technology. The overall apparatus of book-publishing, and distribution, on the other hand, is in for some big changes. Actual books will be around for at least ten years, I’d guess, and maybe longer.