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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
I think e-books are closer to that point than you might think... in fact, poised to become as major a part of literature as MP3s are to music now. That's why the proper publishing model, applied now, could push them over the edge.
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Maybe; we will see. Still in the latest published report, quarterly e-book sales were about 25M$, compared with about 7-8B$ for print.
Now it can be argued that for a long time the same was true for the ratio of cd to mp3 sales, however cd sales have started going into free fall recently while book sales still have healthy trends.
I have no doubt that the number of books released as e will increase over time, what I doubt is that the sales of said e-books will increase dramatically.
If we talk about free e-books (of whatever kind), then the picture may indeed look a bit different, since if there is a point where e competes well with print is when e is free.