Tuesday, July 16, 2002
eBook story looking up
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "ARTICLE" @ 10:30 AM
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,53699,00.html
This is an interesting article on what is happening in the ebook world. Encouraging to see McGraw-Hill report a 55% increase in ebook sales and PerfectBound sold more ebooks in January-May than they did in all of 2001. Palm Digital Media, formerly Peanut Press, sold 180,000 ebooks in 2001, nearly 500 per day.
In my opinion, the software is here. Between Microsoft Reader, Palm Reader (personal favorite), MobiPocket Reader and several others, users have a wide choice of quality readers on a variety of platforms. Now we need the big names to be epublished. Clancy, Grisham and other mega-sellers for example. Or those from the New York Times' Best Seller list. Precious few of those are available in an ebook. I am much more optimistic about the future of ebooks than I was in 2000 when pickings were slim and our Pocket PC's couldn't read most ebooks from Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
This is an interesting article on what is happening in the ebook world. Encouraging to see McGraw-Hill report a 55% increase in ebook sales and PerfectBound sold more ebooks in January-May than they did in all of 2001. Palm Digital Media, formerly Peanut Press, sold 180,000 ebooks in 2001, nearly 500 per day.
In my opinion, the software is here. Between Microsoft Reader, Palm Reader (personal favorite), MobiPocket Reader and several others, users have a wide choice of quality readers on a variety of platforms. Now we need the big names to be epublished. Clancy, Grisham and other mega-sellers for example. Or those from the New York Times' Best Seller list. Precious few of those are available in an ebook. I am much more optimistic about the future of ebooks than I was in 2000 when pickings were slim and our Pocket PC's couldn't read most ebooks from Amazon or Barnes & Noble.
