Editor’sNote: The Deluge
Hi, Book Business readers. As Editorial Director Noelle Skodzinski wrote in this space in the previous issue, I'm the new editor in town. I started at Book Business at the end of September 2011. On my second day, Amazon officially announced its baby tablet, the Kindle Fire, and we were all off to the races. Over the last few months, book publishing has been awash in a tsunami of e-book, e-reader, app and tablet-related news. There are two reasons for this deluge. One is that the consumer media views the rise of the e-book as a perfect storm, the convergence of shiny new thing (gadgets!) and massive cultural paradigm shift ("PRINT IS DEAD!" they shout). The other reason is that, well, there is a gadget- and e-book-related sea change afoot. A little tremor in the cold, digital depths of the publishing ocean has manifested on shore as an e-book tidal wave.