Missed It/Not Comics: Penguin CEO On Digital Publishing

As long as this site is offering up a link to a massive article about the business of digital journalism two posts down the page from this one (on a traditional site view, anyway), let's do something with more traditional digital publishing issues.

This interview with Penguin CEO John Makinson about the future of digital publishing indicates both the wide-open quality of what's to come and the accrued experience that people in positions like Makinson are bringing to the table (he's an independent bookseller, and he has reams of information from Penguin's sales of such books so far).

I liked the piece because it was pretty matter-of-fact that the publishing experience is going to be very different moving into the future because it's already different right now. Makinson also suggests something that I think a lot of comics people feel: that people may want to read a certain kind of book in print and may want supplement that experience with an entirely different one using digital means. This could mean that people will want to read comics in print because that best flatters comics art, but it could also mean that we were lucky for the past couple of decades in that the best and most exciting work was new, and now the new must compete with the last three decades of new and all the decades of work before then that has been re-discovered for us.

thx, Gil
 
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