Nobody mulls things over more than me. Just ask my wonderful forbearing wife.
I chew and chew on something, spit it out, chew it some more, until I've gummed every morsel.
But even I am getting sick of the sheer volume of speculation about digital books and comics.
Every site I go to. Extrapolating from very limited evidence.
It's a bit like trying to figure out global warming from watching the local weather.
Frankly, I wasn't really worried about books until this started happening. I felt books and comics were going to be just fine, left alone.
But they aren't being left alone. They're being pushed off a cliff.
I'm already figuring that it's going to be much harder to ever sell an existing bookstore or comic store -- no matter how well it's doing, because of the perception that e-books are taking over.
So far -- 1% of comic sales are digital.
Arggghhh.
Oh, well. I'll just keep adjusting.
You sound like a tobacco chewer. Hope you brush your teeth. :)
ReplyDeleteJust kidding. Not really.
We just talked about this in Economics. My class was like "KINDLE IS TAKING OVER OMGWTFBBQ!!!!1!!!"
And I was like "NEVARRRRRRRR!" Nothing can beat the smell of a new book, or crinkling the pages, or ruining the brand new spine. Psh.
I plan on moving to Bend and opening a comic shop in April. Any suggestions?
ReplyDeleteI'm going to call it 'buster-bilbos' emporium of home entertainment.
I would like feedback on location, and stock?
Wow, Dunc, you are pulling in some colorful commenters.
ReplyDeleteBuster is that.
ReplyDelete"Nothing can beat the smell of a new book, or crinkling the pages, or ruining the brand new spine. Psh."
ReplyDeleteWhy do people enjoy breaking the back of a new book? I admit that's something I can't do with my Nook. But I never liked to do it with printed books either.
I think e-readers are going to make publishing ephemera -- mass-market fiction and popular nonfiction -- obsolete quite soon. But the kind of books that people want to keep on their shelves and read many times, or just display, will stick around.