E-BOOKS.. WHO WILL SUFFER IF PRINTED BOOKS DISAPPEAR ?
Just about everyone in the book trade seems to believe that e-books - so far much talked about, little used - are about to explode onto the scene and destroy the printed book. I wonder. Reading on a screen is still not easy on the eyes and there is still a generation/kind of person who will never take to the e-book because they are technophobes. Others among us just LOVE the actual physical printed book. But although there are no disadvantages at all to A book, there are to the often cumbersome and uncommercial printing of many books at a time…print on demand, when it improves and reaches a higher standard of presentation - gets over the problem of having to print a minimum of 1,000 copies of a book which might be expected to sell 200. I can see A role for the e-reader but I cannot see it ever replacing the printed book. However, if it does, or if the number of printed books available is cut by, say, two thirds then innumerable people will lose their jobs. The high street book chains will disappear, publishing companies will lose many of their staff and so on. But it is the many brilliant book jacket designers who will really suffer. The e-book does not need a pretty jacket. It does not need any sort of jacket. And just when there are so many wonderful (as well as plenty of hideous) book jackets around. I do not always buy a book for its cover but a good cover always makes me pick the book up and look inside and a bad cover may put me off a book I was about to buy. I love to have a lot of books around me and that is partly for the pleasure I get from jackets. Long may I be able t0 do so.
I just love to snuggle up in bed with a book. It wouldn’t be quite the same with a computer.
Comment by betty — 17 September 2007 @ 1:50 pm
I’m already suffering! Most of the blogs use san serif fonts. Miserable on the eyes! Notable exceptions:Grumpy Old Bookman, Charkin, Stuck In A Book, Wood Green Bookshop! Wonderful! Combined with screen glare, san serifs are miserable. Having said that, the glare alone would be enough to put me off from an entire book - even if it was a great serif font.
Comment by dipeachey — 18 September 2007 @ 7:49 pm
OK, I admit it - I’m a real fan of technology, from PCs (my first was from when DOS 5.0 was the OS - none of this Windows malarky), to MP4 players PDAs and HDD recorders.
But I love nothing better than going to bed with a good book. Now I can download & read a book on my PDA - store a hundred of them in fact on a memory card the size of my pinkie nail - and take it wherever I go. But do I?
No way. Never. Not in a million!
You just can’t beat reading from the printed page. Ever.
DJ
Comment by djpaterson — 22 September 2007 @ 12:26 am
Not only can you not beat reading from the printed page, but the quality of the reading experience is considerably higher. I am asked to edit a lot of books ‘on screen’, but in practice, though there’s a lot that can be done electronically first, I never consider that I’ve read a book ‘properly’ until I’ve printed out the manuscript and read it on paper. It’s amazing how much more intimately the eye and brain connect and engage with paper than they do with a backlit screen, when the tendency is merely to skim (probably in a subconscious race to beat the onset of a migraine!)
On the matter of book covers, however, I really don’t think you need to worry too much. If you look on Lulu and similar sites, you’ll see that even books available as ‘download only’ still have ‘covers’. It seems to be have been recognised that visual component is so essential in promoting a book - even an e-book - that it simply can’t be ignored. My husband designs covers from time to time and has done at least three for e-books.
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