Even saying that, I know that something’s going to break out the second after I post this. In lieu of any breaking news, and to save you from my usual eBook Revolutionary blather, I’ll offer a link to an interesting article by Marion Maneker from The Big Money. Read it here.
Maneker links publishing’s fertile past to the exploding phenomena of digital publishing, acknowledging the lowly book’s historic power and cultural influence that decades of profit-driven publishing empire have obscured. The book has never been a thing of the past, according to Maneker.
On the future of digital publishing Maneker says: “Digital publishing is still in its gestation period. What it will look like, how it will function, and what its impact will be are all up in the air.” While I agree with Maneker about digital publishing’s nascent and protean form, I do think its function and impact will be determined by more than the vertical drop. The reader, the writer and commentators like Maneker now have an active role in what final form and direction digital publishing will take. Writers, readers and publishers now enjoy (or dread) an immediacy (and intimacy as Maneker states) from which all will profit, yah?
