Random House to digitize thousands of books
Found on Wired on Tuesday, 25 November 2008
With e-book sales exploding in an otherwise sleepy market, Random House Inc. announced Monday that it was making thousands of additional books available in digital form.
E-books remain a tiny part of the overall market, widely estimated in the industry at 1 percent or less.
As long as you cannot copy an e-book onto epaper easily, the market share won't increase much. After all, a real book is a real book; reading on a monitor just doesn't come close.