| The book publishing industry has surely changed over | | | | Indeed, iUniverse Publishing appeared to really shake |
| the years. Many self publishing schemes that were | | | | things up, but the synergy simply did not take hold. |
| thought to revolutionize the industry failed to | | | | Does this mean such a strategy is completely dead in |
| materialize. There have also been several | | | | the water? No, but it shows that some things are |
| controversial issues with the Internet and copyrights | | | | slow to change and perhaps it was ahead of its time |
| where Google and Microsoft were scanning out of | | | | and folks did not fully understand it. Meaning we will |
| print books to place online. Google also took flak for | | | | see more of this in the future and it may very well |
| posting parts of books online, but not the entire | | | | be the next wave in self-publishing (with a little help). |
| book for folks to get an idea of what the work was | | | | This trend coupled with the Sony Reader and other |
| about. | | | | new innovations made to compete with it are of |
| Barnes and Noble canceled or rather highly modified | | | | interest and also poised to save a few trees. Many |
| their innovation in self-publishing, finding that books on | | | | of these new electronic readers will allow |
| demand, or printing on demand books from obscure | | | | downloading of eBooks in various formats or actual |
| authors left them without significant profits. Some of | | | | popularized books at a reduced volume discount. |
| this is still being done, even though it was assumed | | | | Does that mean books are dead? No, not yet, but |
| that it would take hold and compete directly with | | | | surely just like the modern day newspapers, that day |
| online eBook websites starting to take their toll on | | | | is coming. Think on this. |
| big book retailers. | | | | |