It started as a 100-day challenge to become a better writer, after a Father told his young son, “If you want to be a better reader, you should read a lot.”
So what happens yesterday? Not five daily blogs, but eight.
Recently, had a discussion and we talked about the future of books:
Books will be relics on display in Museums
eBooks will dominate
Kindle will destroy the publishing industry
The publishing industry will watch it happen
Librarians will lose their jobs
Unless they become Cybrarians
There were 177,000 books published last year
People think it’s hard to write a book
Authors think their book will sell many copies
Barnes & Noble will go out of business eventually
People get ready (Bob Marley reference)
“Books” will be written one day at a time. In public, for the public.
Books will be free. Writers will be poor. And writers will come to realize that there are far too many choices.
A whole new paradigm is being created.
One page per day, almost like reality TV. People will read blogs, and over time, they will have “read a book” and not even know it.
Eventually, this new paradigm will give way to the next.
Hello everyone. Are you still excited about 2010? Were you lying in your bed this morning wondering, “When is that alarm clock ever going to go off? Just bring it on!”
Funny isn’t? Or maybe it’s crazy. Can you imagine having something you can’t wait to get started on?
And so, I just re-read the big question from yesterday.