"A disruptive technology... is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology there." ~Wikipedia: disruptive technology; see also: diffusion of innovations; hype cycle
"In economics, disintermediation is the removal of intermediaries in a supply chain: 'cutting out the middleman'. Instead of going through traditional distribution channels, which had some type of intermediate (such as a distributor, wholesaler, broker, or agent), companies may now deal with every customer directly, for example via the Internet." ~Wikipedia: disintermediation
"We'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure." ~Clifford Stoll, 1995
Why 2012 was the year of the e-singleE-singles: stories somewhere between 5,000 and 30,000 words, usually nonfiction, and sold as inexpensive ebooks are the format for our time; 12/24/2012
How Dead Is the Book Business?just the beginning of a series of mergers; role of patents; do large companies grow through efficiency and innovation or by abusing their leverage? 11/13/2012
E-Books: The Next Chaptersubscription reqd; The rush to e-books isn't without its obstacles, as questions arise about compatibility, sharing and pricing; 7/2012
What Amazon's ebook strategy meansdisintermediation via internet; consumer-side retail monopoly; supplier-side wholesale monopsony (one distrib., many suppliers); eliminate DRM to survive? 4/15/2012
The rise of e-readingPew; 4/4/2012; A fifth of Americans have read an e-book in the past year. E-book readers read more than other readers, and are now spending more time reading. But they aren?t just reading e-books, they also read paper books. Also key: e-reader owners prefer to buy rather than borrow more than print readers do (61 percent vs. 54 percent). Where the reading action is: Forty-two percent read e-books on computers, 41 percent on e-readers, 29 percent on cell phones and 23 percent on tablets.
The Way We Read Nowthe case for e-books; are some reading materials better suited to one platform than another? 3/18/2012
