Showing posts with label E-Commerce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label E-Commerce. Show all posts

April 5, 2010

iPad Begins to Sell, and the future of the publishing and media business

[04/04/2010] The iPad arrived in Silicon Valley last Saturday, and an estimated 700,000 iPads bought on day one.

We have talked about slate PC and iPad (as computer hardware) earlier this semester. This week we are talking about e-commerce and m-commerce. This is where information technologies (like slate PC and iPad) have brought us many changes, and to some businesses, the change is huge. For example:

Is this a big deal? Watch this:


Share some of your own experience and thoughts of the publishing and media businesses (such as newspaper, magazine, TV, movie, music, book, etc.). Where do you think these businesses will go in 5 or 10 years? Will they (or any particular company) disappear?