Geek Force Utterz #023 - Books as Souvenirs
By E. Christopher Clark | Tue, Oct 14, 2008
This morning I got to thinking about whether books, like CDs and DVDs before them, are becoming (or should become) little more than souvenirs to remember the pre-release experience by. We often hear entire CDs leaked before their official release dates, and then buy them only if we enjoyed the illegal listens that we had beforehand. It’s probably the norm that we buy DVDs only after we’ve seen the films contained therein. So, why not books? I think it might be moving that way, with people Scott Sigler leading the charge.
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meleah rebeccah says:
For me, there is nothing like a REAL BOOK in my hands. The way the pages smell and crease....
ChrisClark says:
Oh, I love the smell of book, too. And there’s nothing like the weight of a book in your hands. I’m sure that Amazon Kindle users might argue with me on that, but I think I’d win that argument.
I just think that authors and publishers are going to start making the pre-book experience as enriching for their audience as music-makers like Trent Reznor are doing for their audience. We need to see excerpts and chapters out there ahead of time, online, pulling people in. Stuff like that.
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