Comments on: Poll at Frankfurt Book Fair: Almost 60 percent of publishing pros don’t read e-books at all http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/industry-survey-on-digitization-at-frankfurt-book-fair/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:35:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rob Preece, Publisher http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/industry-survey-on-digitization-at-frankfurt-book-fair/comment-page-1/#comment-1015714 Rob Preece, Publisher Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:39:05 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/02/27/industry-survey-on-digitization-at-frankfurt-book-fair/#comment-1015714 Interesting statistics. My personal polling is that editors, at least, are big on eBook readers--if not for casual reading, at least for reading manuscripts. It's a lot easier to carry a bunch slush pile in a reader than it is in a brief case--plus you don't have to worry about spilling coffee on what you send back to the author. My personal prediction, in 5 years, eBooks outsell paper books (in unit sales). As the most expensive books will be paper, another couple of years before dollar volume exceeds that of paper. Rob Preece Publisher, www.BooksForABuck.com Interesting statistics. My personal polling is that editors, at least, are big on eBook readers–if not for casual reading, at least for reading manuscripts. It’s a lot easier to carry a bunch slush pile in a reader than it is in a brief case–plus you don’t have to worry about spilling coffee on what you send back to the author.

My personal prediction, in 5 years, eBooks outsell paper books (in unit sales). As the most expensive books will be paper, another couple of years before dollar volume exceeds that of paper.

Rob Preece
Publisher, http://www.BooksForABuck.com

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