Books are dinosaur media?
I think a good argument could be made that they indeed are just that.
No. Amazon Kindle’s sales are driven by price.
The “call back” function to wipe the material off your device at the publisher or Amazon’s request is a sticking point for me. It should also be a concern for the politically incorrect. Publish a book, distribute on millions of eReaders, have the publisher or Amazon cave on censorship, and with an IT command, the reading material disappears off those screens.
The print books, however, are still in human hands and available to their minds.
By print books of material at risk of recall or censorship - it will be the only way to keep it. And to check against the endless editing that the digital world is increasingly subject to.
I am familiar with this topic. I wrote: Amazon Kindle Publishing for Idiots Expanded Edition
http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Kindle-Publishing-Expanded-ebook/dp/B002B50FRK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1279658150&sr=8-1
My thoughts also. Kindle and the other devices are a nice portable device that can be easily carried and are great vehicles for those types of books that I pass on or sell when I’m done. Good luck reading them when BO brings us all 5 hours of power a day and/or you have no way of recharging them. We’ve had weather related power outages that have lasted days and I could still read my books while the handheld devices died quickly.
FUBO
Maybe not books, per se.. but the liberal establishment publishing media