The thing about print and ebook is that I think Singaporeans would prefer the E-book. Cheaper mah! Also, it's lighter on the bag, and you can read it on the iPhone or some E-reader or your computer (that everyone seems to have nowadays).
Plus, i'm getting the feeling that books by big publishers lik Tor and Baen are frankly marketted to American readers. The american market seems to be more buy-consume-dispose than anything else - while Singapore's SFF community is smaller than that of the USA and UK (and Europe...) I think it just means that it's a good opportunity.
Of course, the problem with E-books is that printbook jackets mean that people can see you reading it on the bus, and want to go find it, in the bookstore, while not so on the E-book. On the other hand, there is the print-on-demand idea that works too; you'd think that with Singapore going the way it is, e-textbooks and all the like might well be much better than the current textbooks are.
And maybe it'd force the industry to make e-readers with MUCH better functions (editing highlighting etc) than right now, especially since I remember when I had to carry fucking nearly 10kilos of books to school in my sec school days. >.<
That and the library is apparently getting into the Ebook thing too. I'm all for E-books, because the overheads are cheaper, because a lot of books people buy are the read-once only, and they'd end up taking up space and killed trees, while if they were electronic, you could just delete them off the harddrive once you're done. You know? And if you really liked it, you could get the book in print... That's the future of publishing, I think.
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Plus, i'm getting the feeling that books by big publishers lik Tor and Baen are frankly marketted to American readers. The american market seems to be more buy-consume-dispose than anything else - while Singapore's SFF community is smaller than that of the USA and UK (and Europe...) I think it just means that it's a good opportunity.
Of course, the problem with E-books is that printbook jackets mean that people can see you reading it on the bus, and want to go find it, in the bookstore, while not so on the E-book. On the other hand, there is the print-on-demand idea that works too; you'd think that with Singapore going the way it is, e-textbooks and all the like might well be much better than the current textbooks are.
And maybe it'd force the industry to make e-readers with MUCH better functions (editing highlighting etc) than right now, especially since I remember when I had to carry fucking nearly 10kilos of books to school in my sec school days. >.<
That and the library is apparently getting into the Ebook thing too. I'm all for E-books, because the overheads are cheaper, because a lot of books people buy are the read-once only, and they'd end up taking up space and killed trees, while if they were electronic, you could just delete them off the harddrive once you're done. You know? And if you really liked it, you could get the book in print... That's the future of publishing, I think.