Librarian in Black Blog – Sarah Houghton

Here’s an article from the New York Times about how the e-book market has grown and transformed over the last few years (login required)

From the article:

Industry predictions five years ago that e-books would quickly replace paper never came to pass. I figured the digital book had failed because everyone shared my distaste for the first generation of clunky, book-sized devices designed for viewing them. And in fact Gemstar, the principal manufacturer of the electronic readers, stopped selling them last year. But it turns out the e-book market has been changing course and, though still tiny, has been growing at double-digit rates.