Industry guru Mike Shatzkin foresees big gains in e-book sales, consolidation among literary agencies, a jump in customized book sales and much more. See article at Publisher’s Weekly.
Mike Shatzkin is the son of Leonard Shatzkin who wrote The Mathematics of Bookselling and In Cold Type: Overcoming the Book Crisis
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David Rothman from Teleread also does articles/blogging for Publisher’s Weekly. Here was his response to Shatzkins’s predictions.