In the world of publishing, Amazon is Godzilla. It’s one of the largest book retailers in the country. It owns at least 60% of the eBook market, thanks to the Kindle. It’s known to breath fire at uncooperative publishers. When it moves, the ground beneath the industry shakes, and sometimes there’s collateral damage.
Amazon, seeking to make its coming Kindle Fire tablet as appealing as possible, negotiated a deal with DC Comics for the exclusive digital rights to a hundred popular graphic novels. Among the series: Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, the Sandman and Watchmen.
With the launch of the Kindle Fire tomorrow, I thought it would be fun to write a little bit sci-fi and imagine what the publishing market will look like in the next ten or so years. I’m a strong proponent of the ebook and, as I’ve said again and again, I love books but they’re not going to make it past this decade, at least in most of the developed world.
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