How Books Will Survive Amazon by Jason Epstein | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books.
This is a very interesting article on the future of books. Here is a short quotation:
‘The revolutionary process by which all books, old and new, in all languages, will soon be available digitally, at practically no cost for storage and delivery, to a radically decentralized world-wide market at the click of a mouse is irreversible. The technologically obsolete system, in which physical inventory is stored in publishers’ warehouses and trucked to fixed retail locations, will sooner or later be replaced by the more efficient digital alternative.’
