I got to say it’s quite funny to stand beside and see how the Book Publishers applause there own death. They have apparently not seen what happened to the Music Publishers in the last decades.

1999 MP3 player:
A small electronic device that can store thousands of albums. The music are more expensive then the physical counterpart and also encrypted. The device can easily be used to consume music not bought but “illegally downloaded”.

2009 E-book reader:
A small electronic device that can store thousands of books. The books are more expensive then the physical counterpart and also encrypted. The device can easily be used to consume books not bought but “illegally downloaded”.

It’s just a little bit of history repeating!

Wonder what day they will wake up and realize that they aren’t needed anymore because writers don’t need anyone to print paper for them.

(When you look at the pictures one can wonder when Apple will release a e-book reader and add e-books to iTunes, or will Kindle be the iPod for books in ten years?)