Washington Post staff writer Bob Thompson reported on Book Expo America and cited the observations of Mike Shatzkin of the Idea Logical Company about the future of publishing:
“Nobody knows what's going to happen to publishing, Shatzkin emphasized, except that it will change. But ‘you have to have a view of the future in order to know what to do in the present.’ His involves vertical specialization, ‘format-agnostic publishing’ and an extended period of frantic Darwinian experimentation during which ‘costs are going to go up and revenues are going to go down.’
As for that thing with printed pages and a binding:
‘If you read a book on paper, you're going to be definitely stamped as retro,’ Shatzkin said. ‘This is not going to be a fashionable thing to do.’”
^^^
I guess that makes me officially retro. Care to join me?
