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Originally Posted by Kris777
Interesting article:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/05/e-book-design/
and interesting numbers:
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With the popularity of the Kindle and other e-book readers, electronic book sales in the United States have doubled every quarter. Though still a very small percentage of the overall book industry, sales of e-books touched $15.5 million in the first quarter of the year, up from $3.2 million the same quarter a year ago. By contrast, the printed book market sales in North America alone was nearly $14 billion in 2008.
A big part of the problem with the Kindle (the largest selling e-books reader) is its use of the Amazon-specific .mobi file format, rather than the open standard ePub. ePub is based on the XML and CSS standards used in millions of web pages and allows for far more control over layouts than is currently possible with the .mobi file format.
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I must agree and the numbers will continue to increase. More users of electronic books. Well, each e Reader has its flows and good side. Just adopt to one which is more comfortable for you.