Why Book Publishing Will Increase As We Say Goodbye To Newspapers

Posted on March 21, 2008

Most people agree that book publishing is here to stay and newspapers are on their way out as readership of the latter continues to drop.

This truth came rather brutally to me the other day when days after purchasing a valued Sunday newspaper, I still hadn’t read a word in it. It really hit me when I realized that although I couldn’t find time to read the newspaper I was reading no less than two books at the same time.

I sat down stunned and really though about it. In the end I came up with some interesting gems that helped me see the future more clearly than I ever have before. Here they are;

a) I get most of my news from the web and TV. That’s not news but it is one thing to read about some survey and quite another to realize its’ accuracy in your own life.

b) The way I take in news has changed in that I quite often see an item on TV and then go online to do some more research. The info I will get online often beats any newspaper article that I could read.

c) On the few occasions that I will pick up a newspaper, I will flip through the pages hardly finding anything of interest to read. I realized that the reason for this is mainly because the web allows you to read only that which interests me, so I’ve become “spoilt” and very choosy over what I read. In other words the web has created niche readers and the age of the mass-market newspaper is truly dead buried and gone forever.

d) Now this is the really interesting part. I looked at the two books I am currently reading. One is the biography of a well-known worldwide brand that leans heavily on how it has always been marketed. Marketing has always been a subject of great interest to me and is my strength as an online ghost writer.

What all this illustrates is that the most likely thing that will happen is that you will see some news item on TV or somebody will tell you about something of interest. You will then go to the web to seek more information and your search will most likely start at your favored search engine. Then if your interest on the topic is further piqued, chances are that you will find a good detailed book to satisfy your hunger for information on the subject at hand.

Usually what will tend to interest you will be closely related to your area of expertise/interest.

What all this means is that book publishing is going to explode in the years to come and it is going to be fuelled by the massive amount of free information available on the World Wide Web.

There’s been talk about making it easier to read stuff online but to me, nothing beats the aroma of a freshly printed good book that I read while lying in bed or some sofa. Nothing online can replace that or book publishing.

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