Bridging the Gap: Why Publishing's Future is at Risk | Publishing Perspectives

The rise of digital content - websites and apps - is the first time we the consumer have an alternative to the book model to help us help ourselves. It's not just new kinds of content (blogs, wikis, databases) but also self-documenting tools, better software, online classes and workshops, webinars, and online communities where people help each other. Digital gives your customers alternatives and ebooks aren't it. Your ebooks aren't the new thing. They are the old thing photocopied onto a facsimile of the new thing. EbooksDigital bookstore selling wide range of ebooks in 50 categories from Hildegard of Bingen to How to Write a Dirty Story and showing how the range of ebooks available is growing. are nothing more than a print artifact delivered digitally.