After these few days of on line researches, I might take some notes:
_ Territory based networks make sense (see Liberòs)
_ Some editors are pioneering on new media, but the projects do not have strong and clear structures (The Global Hamlet)
_ The relationship between the on-line world of editors/associations and bookstores is quite detached from the world of real bookstores (it's becoming worryingly odd to use the world "real")
_ There are two families of threats to books:
One belongs to economy:
_ we are going through an economic crisis and books are not at the bottom of Maslow's pyramid, even if we'd like to think so
_ bookstores live for paper books and paper books imply production and distribution costs.
The other one belongs to lifestyles, instead of reading people now use to:
_ watch tv
_ browse the internet at home
_ browse the internet with mobile technologies
_ chat on phones or on-line
_ buy books on line
_ read e-books on e-readers
_ pirate books
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