Bookseller.com features an article about Wiley’s ideas about ebooks. Publishers need to push consumer adoption of ebook readers, says John Wiley chairman Peter Wiley and senior vice-president for Europe, Stephen Smith. Wiley believes that textbooks will become digital but he is not sure when. Stephen Smith says ebook readers are the key to success of digital textbooks. Wiley and other textbook publishers are likely to push ebook reading devices to students, Smith says. New ebook readers, such as the Amazon Kindle, will mean growth for textbooks but he also says we are in a ‘rocky transition period right now’.
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