Got this from a reliable source that National Book Store (NBS) is planning to get into the ebook business. I was a little surprised at first but considering that NBS is the biggest book retailer in the country, going into the eBook business this early makes good business sense.
Aside from distributing thousands of book titles, NBS also publishes a few titles themselves. They also got an online store thats been running for years.
It’s too early to tell how the eBooks will be distributed but it could either be implemented via an online store or via on-site transfer (within an NBS branch nationwide).
The viability of this business will rely heavily of the adoption rate of tablets and eBook readers in the country. However, if schools (like St. Paul, et al) starts to standardize the use of tablet and eReaders in the classroom, we might be able to see this project thru.
If we can get more local books digitized, then why not?
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alan_tan:
I think you didn’t get my point. Sharing in a sense that giving out the same PDF file to others who didn’t bought the book. It is TOTALLY different in real books.
Can 2 persons read in one “analog” book at the same time? Or say 3 persons? 4? 5? 100?
In PDF converted book, you can. All you have to do is share or make a copy or duplicate it (like what gg says) to have 100 of copies. Worse give it via Torrent.
That is my point.
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Nice move by NBS! This project will save thousands of trees nationwide. And also ebook is cheaper than hardcopy books.
E-reader manufacturer will be happy about this move and I should say I will invest on this one.
My question is how about the workbook? I hope they would come-up a good idea on this one.
Hopefully, this leads to cheaper non-tablet e-book readers. As it is, Kindles and Nooks available locally are way overpriced.
The obvious question then is this… when will National Bookstore come out with a Kindle-like device to read those e-books they will be selling?