Funny, I didn't hear any "pop." I'm getting a little tired of Reuters writing pieces every few weeks that claim the eBook market is depressed, or collapsing, or otherwise doomed.
Quote:
Bubble Bursts for E-Books
Fri October 10, 2003 11:50 AM ET
By Paul Majendie
FRANKFURT, Germany (Reuters) - At the height of the Internet boom, e-books were hailed as the shining new tomorrow for publishers and paper books were heading for the scrap heap.
But the bubble has burst and electronic books are still the poor relation to the printed word with consumers preferring to turn the pages themselves when they curl up by the fire with a good book.
Read complete article....
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The article may be valid (I invite you to read it all, don't just stop with my excerpt). But the title is more than misleading. The article, imHo, refers to the dot-bomb bubble burst of 2000 (which, if my math is correct,
was 3 friggin' years ago), and the title indicates that something has happened this summer.
Oh, yeah. Something did happen. MS Released 1 or 2 updates to their software and proved to publishers that their "secure" DRM5 model was as secure as wet toilet paper.
"Pop!" A-ha, there's that bubble burst I thought I heard....