Livros, e-livros, autores, direitos, armazenagem, editores
Uma peça de John Walsh, no The Independent, sobre tudo isto — explicado às criancinhas. Com estas declarações do editor da The Bookseller:
«Technology has made virtually anything possible», says Neill Denny, editor-in-chief of the publishing industry magazine The Bookseller. «If you look at it conceptually – there's a five-link chain between the person who writes and the person who reads. You've got Author-Agent- Publisher-Retailer-Reader. Theoretically, the three middle bits could all now vanish and the author could write online directly to the reader.»
However, he continues, «a more likely possibility is that just one of the three central links will vanish on-line. It could be that Amazon, the retailer, becomes the publisher. Or that the agent becomes the publisher, or the publisher becomes the retailer, and you go to a publisher's site to buy the book. One of those links will certainly disappear on-line. We just don't know which.»
