Black Plastic Glasses » Amazon.com http://www.blackplasticglasses.com Musings on Publishing and life in the Digital Age by Evan Schnittman Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:32:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Quo Vadis, Amazon? http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/08/03/quo-vadis-amazon/ http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/08/03/quo-vadis-amazon/#comments Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:20:51 +0000 Evan http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/?p=371 rd New Yorker while on the beach last week, got me thinking about the role of Amazon in the future of print book publishing. Mr. Baker, a novelist, is coming to terms with his new Kindle - its benefits and as well as its drawbacks.  While I don't get a few of his observations (especially his preference to read on the much smaller and much harder-on-the-eyes LCD screen of the iPhone), one comment made about the Kindle struck me as particularly eye opening.

“If I looked up a particular writer on Amazon—Mary Higgins Clark, say—and then reached the page for her knuckle-gnawer of a novel “Moonlight Becomes You,” the top...]]> http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/08/03/quo-vadis-amazon/feed/ 6 Disruption http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/05/05/content-disruption/ http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/05/05/content-disruption/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 09:58:18 +0000 Evan http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/?p=133 Disruption is the first part of a 3-part series on the zeitgeist of the digital era and the significant impact it has on publishing and all other content businesses. Disruption is personal as I look at my own content consumption over the years and document its transformation. There are no answers in part 1, just the facts as I understand them and the questions they spur. I grew up watching TV. Born in 1963, life in my era was, in many ways, controlled by the TV broadcast schedule. Before school was Looney Tunes and after school hours and hours of crap like Gilligan's Island, Green Acres, and the Brady...]]> http://www.blackplasticglasses.com/2009/05/05/content-disruption/feed/ 7