Have We Seen the Back of the Hard Copy Reader?

Interesting article from The St. Petersburg Times (Russia) on the future of books. The author says the myriad of new formats means the market of e-content (that at present basically means mobile content) is one of high growth potential. The hard-copy format is doomed to fall in its share of the market. The Internet University of Informational Technologies gives a few of its courses in the traditional way, despite their complete accessibility on the web site. The university’s administration believes that free publication on the web in no way influences book sales, because those who read books and those who read books on a computer are different categories.