It's not the medium - it's the market. Newspapers and book publishers could learn some valuable lessons from one another.
Unfortunately, it appears that the book industry’s going to make the same costly mistakes as the newspaper industry did, instead. I thought again that as I read the New York Times’ story about Barnes & Noble from last weekend, The Bookstore’s Last Stand . Springer Realtime. Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML (9780596101978): Elisabeth Robs.
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