Galaki said:
mchaza said:
he is right, but Apple isn't the only one to blame, you have the E-Readers that all the electro companies have made. But the Ipad is the most popular. Sure the thousands upon thousands of jobs will be lost, in the Retail industry for books. Libaries need to position themselves as more better Learning environments with more tech like free Wifi and Laptop friendly locations, and uni/students will come to them. Publishers will most likely go bust because Authors can go direct to the market more easily which isn't so good. Book were an much more reliable resource compared to the internet, but with books going internet, they will lose crediablity and 2 biggest sources of information are lost within an flood of opinion and false facts.
When that happens, Books will make an come back. Or Educational books will never die out. But fictional will be in more numbers and variety now.
Only recently the Major Book selling chain here in Australia has gone bust. But so has many many video stores due to priacy and internet streaming of movies. Blockbuster wont last long here.
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What are you smoking?
Adapt or die. You gotta go with the time instead of blaming anything new.
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i said that Libraries can adapt but non educational book publishers are goiung to be finished as writters can go direct to public. When that happens thousands of jobs gone in publishing and retail in the book industry. Writters will remain open and libaries aren't going to close on mass as they are free public services.
So he is right that jobs will be gone but its not like its hasn't happened many times before. Like the Photo industry, when Digital came in 10s of thousands of jobs world wide were lost in the photo production. But Kodak adapted into digital printing and digital camera maufacturer.
