Publishers Try to Learn to Love the Web

In the article, "Publishers Try to Learn to Love the Web", Olga Kharif discusses the pressing issue for publishers to a variety of digital books. Many publishers would love to keep things just the way they are, however they are facing the challenge to love digital books so they can avoid the toll inflicted by the Internet on newspapers and the music business. There are so many areas publishers can get involved in using digital books. There are Kindles that allow people to buy digital versions to be put onto a hand-held device you can take anywhere and digital books they can buy to download to computers. Nowadays, newer methods are being considered such as a Net-flix style website to rent books online, buying individual chapters of a book and even libraries are buying books digitally that their patrons can check out for free. Some critics worry that some publishers have become too willing to accept too little money for their author's work. But with the way the world is ever changing, making the switch to digital may be just what helps them the most.