Though the publishing world is abuzz with the debut of Bookish this fall. What do you think of this match-up? Will the Big Publishers be able to compete with the Big E-Tailer turned publisher? Will the Big Pubs Turned E-Tailer make a substantial dent into Amazon's book business? Or will Amazon's Book sales plunge into the abyss?
I think it will be a very tough job for Bookish to prevail. The Pubs have a much steeper learning curve. Pubs have some of the most boring websites out there so they need a total makeover and learn E-Tail. Bookish will not even support Kindle downloads. With a Kindle3 you can read but only connected to the internet.
Amazon has a proven dynamic website, server farms, and everything to go with it already in place. All they need is to hire some savy Publishing people to work for them.
What do you think?
I think it will be a very tough job for Bookish to prevail. The Pubs have a much steeper learning curve. Pubs have some of the most boring websites out there so they need a total makeover and learn E-Tail. Bookish will not even support Kindle downloads. With a Kindle3 you can read but only connected to the internet.
Amazon has a proven dynamic website, server farms, and everything to go with it already in place. All they need is to hire some savy Publishing people to work for them.
What do you think?