On The Future Of Books

If I were a betting man, I’d wager quite a bit on these predictions. However, if you’re currently in the book sales racket – from publisher to used bookstore owner, I’d be very worried. The time to pivot is now and it’s clearly already happening. While I will miss the creak of the Village Bookshop’s old church floor, the calm of Crescent City books, and the crankiness of the Provincetown Bookshop, the time has come to move on.

2013 – EBook sales surpass all other book sales, even used books. EMagazines begin cutting into paper magazine sales.

2014 – Publishers begin “subsidized” e-reader trials. Newspapers, magazines, and book publishers will attempt to create hardware lockins for their wares. They will fail.

2015 – The death of the Mom and Pops. Smaller book stores will use the real estate to sell coffee and Wi-Fi. Collectable bookstores will still exist in the margins.

2016 – Lifestyle magazines as well as most popular Conde Nast titles will go tablet-only.

2018 – The last Barnes & Noble store converts to a cafe and digital access point.

2019 – B&N and Amazon’s publishing arms – including self-pub – will dwarf all other publishing.

2019 – The great culling of the publishers. Smaller houses may survive but not many of them. The giants like Random House and Penguin will calve their smaller houses into e-only ventures. The last of the “publisher subsidized” tablet devices will falter.

2020 – Nearly every middle school to college student will have an e-reader. Textbooks will slowly disappear.

2023 – Epaper will make ereaders as thin as a few sheets of paper.

2025 – The transition is complete even in most of the developing world. The book is, at best, an artifact and at worst a nuisance. Book collections won’t disappear – hold-outs will exist and a subset of readers will still print books – but generally all publishing will exist digitally.

vía The Future Of Books: A Dystopian Timeline | TechCrunch.

X-G. Por que predicamos

356. Cristo Jesús me tuvo compasión, para empezar conmigo a mostrar toda su paciencia, dando un ejemplo a los que habían de creer y conseguir la vida eterna. (1 Tm 1,16)

357. Hay que obedecer a Dios antes que a los hombres. El Dios de nuestros padres ha resucitado a Jesús, a quien vosotros ejecutasteis colgándolo de un madero. Al mismo, Dios lo ha exaltado a su derecha, nombrándolo, jefe y salvador, para ofrecer a Israel el arrepentimiento y el perdón de los pecados. De estos hechos somos nosotros testigos con el Espíritu Santo que Dios concede a los que creen en él. (Hch 5,29-32)

358. Si yo digo al malvado que es reo de muerte y tú no le das la alarma -es decir, no hablas poniendo en guardia al malvado para que cambie su mala conducta y conserve la vida -, entonces el malvado morirá por su culpa y a ti te pediré cuenta de su sangre. (Ez 3,18)

359. Al que me confiese ante los hombres, lo confesaré yo ante mi Padre del cielo. Al que reniegue de mi ante los hombres, renegaré yo de el ante mi Padre del cielo. (Mt 10,32-33)

360. Vosotros sois la luz del mundo. No puede ocultarse una ciudad construida sobre un monte. (Mt 5, 14)

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