Cloud Computing And Its Implications on Book Publishing
October 30, 2012
E.L. James, author of Fifty Shades of Grey, is a living proof on how the cloud can truly help writers gain direct access to readers. Publishers are not as powerful as they were before. They are also not necessary. All the writers need is the cloud.
Promotions of books also happen in the cloud, through blogs, forums, social media, and emails. However, benefit to the writer may not necessarily translate to the consumers. Worse, behind all the hype of how the cloud works…
Access Not Possession
We have been so used to the concept of purchasing digital properties that our concept of “possession” has already changed. URLs, for one, are non-tangible real estate properties. It is your address, a specific destination that will help people find your digital home. In reality, it is doesn’t exist. The information that you store in your properties can’t be touched. If some genius manages to hack his way through it, your address and all the information located in it could disappear in an instant.
Yet, we do not question the whole concept of digital ownership because we are used to it. We input our credit card information and we are given a copy of the book or comic novel. However, the 2009 Orwell’s 1984 incident should be the constant reminder that what we get when we pay for ebooks aren’t really copies of the book, it’s an access to the book subject to certain conditions…
Read more from the source @ http://cloudtimes.org/2012/10/29/cloud-computing-book-publishing