Comments on: Whither the book trade http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2008/05/06/whither-the-book-trade/ It's that simple -- and that hard. And that inescapable. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:44:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: eoinpurcell http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2008/05/06/whither-the-book-trade/#comment-52251 Wed, 07 May 2008 08:47:16 +0000 http://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/?p=640#comment-52251 Hello Mark,

I think that’s fair. I think Andrew’s blog was very useful because it forces a rethink of entrenched position.

Eoin

]]> By: Mark Thwaite http://eoinpurcellsblog.com/2008/05/06/whither-the-book-trade/#comment-52250 Wed, 07 May 2008 08:37:15 +0000 http://eoinpurcell.wordpress.com/?p=640#comment-52250 I think the key thing about Andrew’s post is that there is (always) everything to play for. Nothing is settled and the Internet is always there to shake things up again when it looks like things might be calming down.

Will e-books finally come to kill off the codex book? Will publishers become booksellers and leave booksellers out in the cold? Will Amazon take over the world!? Who knows!

What we do know is that the businesses that will thrive are the ones that keep on their toes! And just at the moment when the market seems rigged right against you is the time to see what (potential very big) opportunities exist in the margins …

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