- "A disruptive technology... is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, ... displacing an earlier technology there." ~Wikipedia
- "In economics, disintermediation is the removal of intermediaries in a supply chain: 'cutting out the middleman'. ... companies may now deal with every customer directly, for example via the Internet." ~Wikipedia
- Changing roles of publishers, bookstores, libraries, authors, readers, students, ...
E-books outselling physical books- E-books enable faster updating, publishing; new forms: essays, serials, recycled news/blogs, ...
- Self-publishing: higher royalties, but more marketing effort
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