Saturday, April 16, 2011

Schumpeter Meets The iPad

Great post by Don Boudreaux at Cafe Hayek. See iCreative Destruction.
"Not long ago people complained that Borders and Barnes & Noble were causing independent book retailers to shut their doors. Now Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. is warning that the iPad and other e-book readers are hurting Borders and Barnes & Noble.‘ (HT Charlie Frey and Nick Mueller)

The jobs they are a-changin’. Competition and progress are like that."

Here are the links:

Borders patrol - competition in the book industry by Nick Gillespie of Reason. It is fairly long and was written in 1995.

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Blames The iPad For Killing Jobs

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.