It turns out that tech companies — especially Apple and Amazon — are the new publishers. And this is, of course, because their technology disintermediates all the component steps required for a physical book. We have all seen the numbers about the growth of e-books and how every category is impinging on the traditional book categories.
Why e-books will be much bigger than you can imagine — Tech News and Analysis (via infoneer-pulse)
To me, this reads like doomsday.
(via teachingliteracy)