I spoke at a conference in Oslo recently, and am currently finalising my speech for the Publishers Association’s International Conference on Thursday. Managing the pace of change associated with digital publishing is a key theme in both speeches and I had been trying to find a neat summary of the issues. Then I came across an especially resonant quote today which I think sums it up, via Tim O’Reilly on the Reading 2.0 list:
“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.”
General Eric Shinseki
Tags: change, publishing
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funnily enough I posted today on some folks in a small indy comics publisher doing a link up to make an iPhone version of their recent graphic biography of Johnny Cash; since it was on the iPhone they decided to do something more than just port over pages as so many do (which is rather boring too often) and incorporated it playing relevant music with it. Personally I would still rather read the book version with some Cash on my stereo (which is how I did read it!), but I can see it appealing to some, especially those who probably wouldn’t pick up the paper version normally. Pile of comics publishers large and small are also in on Sony’s PSP reader too.
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