Parlare con Jeff Bezos, il creatore di Amazon.com e di Kindle, per capire meglio cosa sarà del libro. L’articolo è firmato dal grande Steve Levy, già autore di Hackers e Semplicemente perfetto.

Sono convinto che qualunque tipo di bussiness vincente si possa costruire solo con la ricerca.

Il pezzo è pieno di spunti interessantissimi su cui riflettere, il primo è folgorante:

1) The key feature of a book is that it disappears

2) People spend about 20 percent of the time browsing for information and 80 percent reading or consuming it. The transition has already happened. And we haven’t noticed

3) “The baby boomers have a love affair with paper,” he says. “But the next-gen people, in their 20s and below, do everything on a screen.”

4) Readers will read in public. Writers will write in public.

5) Last week my wife searched for information about the first English edition of the journals of Pehr Kalm, a Swedish naturalist traveling in Colonial America. In less than two seconds, Google delivered the full text of the book, as published in 1771.

6) Reading becomes a community activity

7) You’ll be able to get all the world’s information, all the books that have been published, all the world’s libraries.

Ecco il link dell’articolo completo:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/70983/page/1

Jeff Bezos