The future belongs to the E-book (English -- not by machine -- version)
[Frankfurt] Book fair Director Juergen Boos signalled the trend in his opening speech: more and more books are offered in digital form. This year it's around 30 percent of all books, most of them digital versions of books already in print (the so-called tree books
Publishing World Eyes E-Book Readers' Future
Penguin publishers CEO John Makinson told Reuters: "They have become mainstream in the sense that they are a genuine consumer product for which there is real appetite, so this is not the province of geeks any longer."
Makinson said Penguin was now publishing all new titles both as printed books and e-books and was digitalizing its backlist.
Technology research firm iSuppli predicts that global e-book display revenue will grow to $291 million in 2012 from $3.5 million in 2007.
Emphasis added by me.
My God! A dying dinosaur of print acknowledges eBooks!
LCC Conference Considers the Inevitability of the E-Book
However the e-book has achieved enough momentum for continued existence. At the Frankfurt Bookfair there was discussion about the ePUB format, a standard based on XML and also about the role of XML in general. Liz Thompson reported in Publishers Weekly that Mike Shatzin had proposed publishers work in XML for intellectual property as the sun of a new system, with the "book as merely one orbiting opportunity."
The Frankfurt meeting on ePUP organised by The International Digital Publishing Forum heard thst year-to-year wholesale eBook sales are growing at 71 percent and there have now been over 2 million ePUB downloads from Feedbooks. Feedbooks can create a variety of formats for e-books from most web sources.
Emphasis added by me.
ePub for the win!
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