This is my first blog post of the 2011 era and I hope this year I bring you more wild and interesting articles for you to read and amuse yourself with.
I realise that it is approaching February already, but unfortunately I have had to contend with University Projects and Exam Revision for the past 3 - 4 weeks so I have struggled to find time to write articles for the Flipper Blog. I hope everyone had a pleasant Christmas and that Santa Claus brought them every thing that they wished for.
I realise that it is approaching February already, but unfortunately I have had to contend with University Projects and Exam Revision for the past 3 - 4 weeks so I have struggled to find time to write articles for the Flipper Blog. I hope everyone had a pleasant Christmas and that Santa Claus brought them every thing that they wished for.
One of the gifts I received was a Waterstones, book card that I have now spent but I have had a bit of struggle to spend it, in this sense I mean who is buying books, with the future of the E-Book reader more powerful than ever, could 2011 be the year where books are a thing of the past and we are switching to alternative sources for reading?
More importantly where does the future of cookery books lie, in a sense the traditional cook book gave us an amazing amount of recipes, new ideas and what to do with left over ingredients. However with the digital age well under way, has cookery books become a thing of the past, after all we spend more time on the Web and are becoming more mobile than ever before. This has created publishers to create much more Rich Content for ebooks and e-readers suggesting that cook books are something of a thing of the past.
Of course we are still going have the books that we have collected from years gone by and we are still going to find our favourite recipes in these books. Whats more we can afford to accidentally spill flour or stains on our books and they will still provide us with the information we need.
However the longevity of the cook book could be something of the past in future years to come, as people become more technologically savvy, people are going to explore new ways to find recipes, specifically YouTube channels offering not only new recipe ideas but demonstrations on methods of preparation too.
Are we switching to more alternative sources of media for our recipes
In my opinion publishers should seriously start considering the medium in which books are published, delivering the right content to the right person is going to be even more difficult moving in to the next decade.
In a sentence then. Where does the traditional book shop lie, and what does the future hold for these high street book shops? What would a world be like where we walked into a high street shop and downloaded all our books on to an e-reader from a kiosk.
Update Sunday 30 January:
Amazon Kindle e-book downloads outsell paper backs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12305015
More importantly where does the future of cookery books lie, in a sense the traditional cook book gave us an amazing amount of recipes, new ideas and what to do with left over ingredients. However with the digital age well under way, has cookery books become a thing of the past, after all we spend more time on the Web and are becoming more mobile than ever before. This has created publishers to create much more Rich Content for ebooks and e-readers suggesting that cook books are something of a thing of the past.
Of course we are still going have the books that we have collected from years gone by and we are still going to find our favourite recipes in these books. Whats more we can afford to accidentally spill flour or stains on our books and they will still provide us with the information we need.
However the longevity of the cook book could be something of the past in future years to come, as people become more technologically savvy, people are going to explore new ways to find recipes, specifically YouTube channels offering not only new recipe ideas but demonstrations on methods of preparation too.
Are we switching to more alternative sources of media for our recipes In my opinion publishers should seriously start considering the medium in which books are published, delivering the right content to the right person is going to be even more difficult moving in to the next decade.
In a sentence then. Where does the traditional book shop lie, and what does the future hold for these high street book shops? What would a world be like where we walked into a high street shop and downloaded all our books on to an e-reader from a kiosk.
Update Sunday 30 January:
Amazon Kindle e-book downloads outsell paper backs
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12305015
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