del.icio.us bookmarks for November 14th

  • Iain Dale’s Diary: Is There a Future for Books?
    Thoughtful article on the future of publishing. Is it as bleak as that? I hope not. I work in an industry where specialist monographs that probably only sell a few hundred copies at best have been the normal method to disseminate specialist information. Perhaps e-books might save them, but I rather suspect the publication of specialist information on specialist websites that can be easily and frequently updated are more likely to sound their death knell than the lack of bookshop distribution or low cover prices.
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