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Owen Densmore

Why Publishers Don't Like Apps - Technology Review

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Yet another gem from HTML5 weekly:

http://www.technologyreview.com/business/40319/?p1=BI

Basically the publishers fell in love with the potential of "apps", but then bumped into their downsides. And no surprise, HTML5 is taking hold instead.

From this article, I'd guess the main breakthrough will be when "ebooks" are more than just digital copies of paper books. In the magazine genre, Flipboard and other aggregators are quite successful. And, yes, textbooks do hold some promise as well, but certainly not via Apple. I'd like to see if Amazon could be successful, but less draconian.

-- Owen

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Owen Densmore

Re: Why Publishers Don't Like Apps - Technology Review

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I don't know if you noticed the link included in the article below:

http://www.technologyreview.com/business/?id=29

It enumerated other ideas TR has come across, one being Big Data is over-rated.

-- Owen

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

Yet another gem from HTML5 weekly:
http://www.technologyreview.com/business/40319/?p1=BI

Basically the publishers fell in love with the potential of "apps", but then bumped into their downsides. And no surprise, HTML5 is taking hold instead.

From this article, I'd guess the main breakthrough will be when "ebooks" are more than just digital copies of paper books. In the magazine genre, Flipboard and other aggregators are quite successful. And, yes, textbooks do hold some promise as well, but certainly not via Apple. I'd like to see if Amazon could be successful, but less draconian.

-- Owen