Nope those I buy from..like Fat Wreck chords to use a big example..
That's at least something then.
Nope those I buy from..like Fat Wreck chords to use a big example..
In the early days of personal computing, computer programs would occasionally be broadcast on the radio for DIY programmers to record on their computer casette drives. So, a digital program would be converted to an analog signal, transmitted wirelessly as an analog signal, recorded as an analog "file" by the end-user and then re-converted into a digital file by the computer.
Nowadays we store everything in a digital format. But it used to be that the only way to store digital data was with an analog device. Fascinating.
How so?
Printed books are for people who like books. eBooks are for people who like reading.
The writing is on the wall, printed book sales are getting smaller every year.
Like it or not, media that can be digitized will be.
Convenience is a driving factor in consumer goods. Sure they'll always be someone that holds out in favor of what they're accustomed to.
I completely agree. But technology-driven media often suffers from an emphasis on "can we?" over "should we?" and "how?" The invention of eBooks does not make physical books a dead media overnight, or even in a century. Remember the "paperless office"? That didn't quite work out, did it?
I own, and read, a number of books that are 100-150 years old. Do they decay? Sure. But not so fast that it's really something any one person ever needs to worry about. There is a big difference between a printed book, which can last perhaps 500-700 years with care (and well over a century without), and cheap optical media that is trash within a couple years. Digital files may be 'immortal', but they still require devices to store and access them, and those are considerably more delicate and expensive than physical books.
I'm no enemy of eBooks. I think they are great. But, as with many technologies, they complement, rather than replace, the physical media that came before them. The notion that books are only for "people who like books" is false.
I don't agree about printed books. Music is pretty much the same any place you get it (records, CDs, internet etc). Printed books feel much nicer than reading them on a tablet. Dunno about overseas, but in my country printed books don't seem to be losing many sales at all.
Mate i am a a graphic prepress tradesman and print media has died bigtime in the last 5 years.
No, I mean, like novel books. Print media includes magazines, newspapers and reference books, maps etc which have been almost totally replaced by the internet. Novels to a lesser extent.
Sorry print media does mean those things but books have also declined in the last 5 years. Devices like the kindle and ipad are slowly killing off the physical printing of books.
True... But unlike newspapers and the like, there will still be a large number of people who prefer to read a physical book.
Books can decay, CDs can too (scratches, bit-rot), Film decays...CRTs (dead), RPTV (dead)
And digital media can't corrupt?
No.
CDs are going the way of vinyl records. Printed books are heading the same way.