The Rebirth of E-publishing

Ender sent over This MSNBC Story that says E-books bombed a few years ago, but they’re back, and now e-periodicals may be the next big thing.

Major publishers like AOL Time Warner, Random House and McGraw-Hill all reported that their electronic editions—across a polyglot set of devices from PDAs to laptops to Gemstar’s dedicated e-Book—were showing sales growth in double digit percentages. there are more than 40,000 titles available in various e-book formats, from over 400 publishers. And in the past few months, several companies have introduced library-lending systems for e-books—for the first time making it possible for a public library to circulate e-books with expiration dates (instead of due dates, as with physical books) so that the same title can be lent over and over.

December 30, 2002 by Uncategorized 0

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