Comments on: Platform Wars Come to the Book Business http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/02/23/platform-wars-come-to-the-book-business/ What's Hot & What's Cooking in Scholarly Publishing - from the Society for Scholarly Publishing Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:25:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Offermobi Raises $1M For Performance-based Mobile Advertising Platform | Startup Websites http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/02/23/platform-wars-come-to-the-book-business/#comment-27535 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:23:14 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=8535#comment-27535 [...] Platform Wars Come to the Book Business « The Scholarly Kitchen [...]

]]> By: Joe’s Picks for 2010: Reckless Enthusiasm and the Platform Wars « The Scholarly Kitchen http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/02/23/platform-wars-come-to-the-book-business/#comment-25848 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:14:00 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=8535#comment-25848 [...] Selected Posts: Let’s Hear It for Reckless Enthusiasm! and Platform Wars Come to the Book Business. [...]

]]> By: ericrumsey http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/02/23/platform-wars-come-to-the-book-business/#comment-8239 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:47:23 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=8535#comment-8239 Interesting idea – “Google Web Search as The premier search index to books” (You might write an article on that). I guess I think of Google Web Search as The premier search index for “Everything,” with books being a subset of that.

]]> By: The View From the Publisher’s Desk: Top Publishing News of the Week, 2/26/10 « TSTC Publishing's Book Business Blog http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/02/23/platform-wars-come-to-the-book-business/#comment-8236 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:58:01 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=8535#comment-8236 [...] purpose of the material the same as when the publisher first attached their name/brand/logo to it. Platform Wars Come to the Book Business (2/23/10 via The Scholarly [...]

]]> By: Joseph Esposito http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/02/23/platform-wars-come-to-the-book-business/#comment-8232 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:14:15 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=8535#comment-8232 The first major online bookstore is Amazon. The first sexy ebook device is the forthcoming iPad. (Whatever the virtues of the Kindle, sexy it is not.) The premier search index to books is not Google Book Search but Google Web Search. One could argue about these choices, and if someone will buy me a pitcher of beer, I will swill and protest with anybody.

]]> By: ericrumsey http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/02/23/platform-wars-come-to-the-book-business/#comment-8230 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:24:16 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=8535#comment-8230 You say …
“And perhaps it is also the time to wonder why it is that people outside the book industry developed the first major online bookstore, the first sexy e-reading device, and the premier search index to books.”

For the first two, I assume you mean …
“first major online bookstore” – Amazon
“first sexy e-reading device” – Kindle
For the third …
“the premier search index to books” – Do you mean Google Book Search?

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]]> By: Mauricio Longo http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/02/23/platform-wars-come-to-the-book-business/#comment-8128 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:42:30 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=8535#comment-8128 Publishers, up to this point, have very much stuck to a reactionary stance in relation to ebooks. Most force ebook editions to come out a good deal of time after the physical editions and charge the same price for a digital download as for a hardcover edition which is pretty much the same insulting the readers’ intelligence.

In this stance, their position isn’t very different from that of the music industry when digital downloads came knocking on their door.

Publishers still have an option, which I’m sure they will never choose, which is to work together so that they define the software basis for the future of digital books in such a way as to make sure that it is interoperable with any bookstore and any device. This is the only path to avoid dominance by one or more companies such as Apple or Google.

If all ebooks could be sold from all online retailers and read on any device, then these other companies would become as relevant as print shops that print paper books today.

In the end, when one or two companies dominate the book distribution, publishers will become more and more irrelevant as authors and distributors work directly together.

]]> By: Joseph Esposito http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2010/02/23/platform-wars-come-to-the-book-business/#comment-8124 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:13:48 +0000 http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/?p=8535#comment-8124 My good friend Charles Levine chastised me with accustomed pleasure by pointing out that the Kindle does in fact have a browser, but that it is limited. Mea culpa.

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