Newspapers are using their pages to run op-ed pieces about e-readers and other print disruptive technology. John Davidson jas a piece in the AFR on the weekend reviewing the Kindle. Doig Spiers takes a somewhat lighthearted swipe at e-readers in the Winnipeg Free Press.
We should not be lured into a false sense of security by this bad press for new devices. The music industry was. How many music stores are there today compared to ten years ago? Diversification is the name of the game, not radical diversification but smart diversification into categories which are naturally adjacent to the products we sell today.