As Amazon.com ’s dominance grows , we ’re only just starting to see the frame of how different the publication industry is going to look in another five or ten years . And web developer Baldur Bjarnasonhas a shuddery thought : if the e - book revolution and the rise of Amazon succeed in chipping by at the web of bookshop and libraries that help bring in new lector , could Holy Scripture go the manner of comic books after the rise of specialized amusing Bible stores ?
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Bjarnason explains :
The doctrine of analogy I ’ve been using is the comical volume ’s verbatim market . This enable comedian publishers to ply to their expert reader , those with an intricate knowledge about past continuity and a burn off love for the medium .
But , nobody else go into mirthful book stock . Kids do n’t arise up seeing comic on the newsstands or in bookshop anymore . Comics cease in the late 1880s , former XC , to have a front in our public spaces and renewal of the reader - base halted .
Publishers discovered Modern ways of force money out of their regulars , but put no sentiment to where next customers would come from .
So , today we have a situation where bestselling comic strip deal an order of magnitude few comics than bestsellers did in the nineties ( 100 000 copies versus a million versus million , plural , in the eighties / seventies / sixties ) … ..
Novels could easily fall into the same trap . Publishers are evoke prices to library and , in the UK , cutbacks are threaten their very cosmos . bookstall are disappearing from malls , retail park , and the high street . retail merchant like WH Smiths focus more on stationary and general goods than they do books , and what few playscript they have are dominated by renown bios and churned non - fiction . Like comics before , novel are tardily vanish from the public firmament .
Of course , soft-cover novels have been disappearing from drug stock and place like Wal - Mart for quite some time , in any case . And lots of people are find raw authors via Amazon all the time — as Wool author Hugh Howeycould tell apart you — but it ’s still a scary scenario . [ Baldur Bjarnason , viaTim O’Reilly ]
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