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By Paul Biba

I’m at the show this morning and I stopped by the Ingram booth to say hello.  They told me that, from their viewpoint, the show has been very successful on the digital end.  They said that last year people were asking them to explain what all this digital stuff was, but this year people seem to know all that and are talking about implementation.  They said that they are getting a lot of interest from hardware manufacturers, so Amazon may be seeing some competition in the future.

Update:  As I was leaving I ran into the CEO of Overdrive and told him about the Ingram comment.  He pretty much agreed and said that people are finally starting to ask the right questions.  He said that there is a sense of urgency with people wanting to convert all their books now and they still need some education on formats, ecomerce models etc.  He also said that there is a lot of interest from international publishers.

I also ran into a small publisher, who must remain nameless, who would like to do some innovative things with ebooks. They told me that even though there is a lot of publisher interest in ebooks, once you get a way from the main stream or want to do something different that does not include full text with DRM, publishers are shying away, not knowing what to make of something that is not plain vanilla.

 
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