By Jonathan Mead
Short lived was the life of the ebook.
Though things could have been different. The end of the digital self-publishing era didn’t have to come to such a tragic demise. It could have been prevented. But people just couldn’t respect the developing medium. There was too much exploiting. There was too much noise. Too many haphazard pages. Too much launch fatigue.
In the end, the ebook was just too frail to survive.
Of course this melancholy funeral procession is simply a glimpse at a potential reality. But it’s one I hear many bloggers herald…
“Stop making ebooks!” or “Ebooks are so over.”
Seriously? Didn’t we just give birth to and cut the umbilical cord of the ebook?
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