ebook revolusjonen
I dag har jeg et par linker om “ebook revolusjonen” du mÃ¥ lese. Cory Doctorow beskriver i sin artikkel You Do Like Reading Off a Computer Screen hvordan problemet ikke er at skjermer ikke egner seg til Ã¥ lese bøker men at bøker ikke egner seg til Ã¥ bli lest pÃ¥ skjerm.
En subtil forskjell, men i følge Cory er den viktig, og vil kunne endre hvordan forfattere skriver historier i fremtiden.
The novel is an invention, one that was engendered by technological changes in information display, reproduction, and distribution. The cognitive style of the novel is different from the cognitive style of the legend. The cognitive style of the computer is different from the cognitive style of the novel.
Cory tror ikke ebook-markedet vil ta helt av og gi forfatterne nye inntektsmuligheter. Han tror heller ikke det vil bli et stort piratmarked for bøker som vil ødelegge for forfatterne. Romanen - slik romanen fremstår i dag - vil overleve best i papirform.
Charles Stross følger opp med bloggposten Why the commercial ebook market is broken, hvor han argumenterer for at man bør oppmuntre det digitale piratmarkedet, og at det vil ha positiv innvirkning på boksalget:
Lots of people download books off the net, but one thing even the proponents of ebook DRM agree is that it doesn’t seem to have had any economic impact on the sales of dead tree editions. In fact, there’s a lot of evidence from research into music file sharing that people who use “pirate” ebooks actually buy more of the real thing.
In the pre-internet dark age, there was a subculture of folks who would get their hands on books and pass them around and encourage people to read them for free, rather than buying their own copies. Much like today’s ebook pirates, in terms of the what they did (with one or two minor differences). There was a closely-related subculture who would actually sell copies of books without paying the authors a penny in royalties, too.
We have a technical term for such people: we call them “librarians” and “second-hand bookstore owners”.
Disse to forfatterne er kjent for å ha god innsikt i hvor vår digitale hverdag vil bringe oss, og er du interessert i dette vil jeg anbefale å følge med på hva de har å si.
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