My iPad Journey: iPad Future in Publishing
I am monitoring the iPad not only from my personal reaction but also to the value that various apps have in relationship to the publishing business and any affects on printing.
Recently Richard Romano of WhatTheyThink wrote an excellent article for Printing Industries of America The Magazine, In the article in the Forecast Part 1, Trends and Tactics, Romano’s article, “ E-Books Go Mainstream,” he opened with a tantalizing "Trivial Pursuit" question about "Who was the first author to sell one million e-books?" This question was really a mechanism to illustrate the difficulty in actually paying attention and analyzing the use, purchase, and comparison to book sales that exist. What all the attributed facts and illustrations proved is that e-books are impacting publishing and print products…not to mention our lives. The general fact is that e-books are gaining ground in all book categories. For the Forecast article see http://www.printing.org/page/4508