Download eBooks - They're Updated With the Latest Info Before Regular Books Are

By Edward Johnson  |   Submitted On March 15, 2016

  

In the good old days, books had to go through various phases before they could be printed again. You had a manuscript phase, then proofreading, design, and furthermore you could end up with older editions that quickly became impossible to sell when new editions were printed.

This was not only time-consuming, but certainly also expensive in printing costs and all the other work related costs involved.

Nowadays, you can edit a PDF-document, and release a new version of your eBook within just hours compared with weeks or months in times past.

Similarly, the ability to deliver the eBooks right away have increased demand from readers for updated material, thus creating a spiral of need-to-know information, and then a wish from authors to deliver the best information so that reviews don't focus on outdated information.

Some publishers have gone through a big transition in this, because formerly there was an equality between printed editions and eBook versions. Now, the trend is moving in the direction of eBooks, and therefore focus has shifted over to keeping eBooks updated to get a bigger chunk of the sales involved in this field of publishing.

Furthermore, the environmental aspect is also furthering the perception that eBooks are more environmentally correct than printed books. Bits and bytes don't weigh anything, and you can carry eBooks on your iPad or your Amazon Kindle.

It is certainly a competition that requires that all authors are focused on changes, and ready to act as soon as laws change when writing political books or economic teaching materials. This has truly revolutionized the world of publishing in such a dramatic way that we can almost compare it with the change from written manuscripts to printing through Guthenberg. It is an amazing development, and we need to be grateful for the way in which technology moves our status quo.

So the only thing that keeps publishers from updating their printed versions seems to be the wish that they want their existing stocks to be sold before they print new versions. Once people move over to only buying eBooks that trend will change, because then written books would become something reserved for detective stories and celebratory versions of photo books and other timeless publications. But I must, in finalizing, remind everyone that the death of the printed book was declared several decades ago, but has never happened. People enjoy reading a book, and turning pages - and that is fine. The idea was never to kill the printed book, but to allow people to be more mobile with their libraries of books.

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