The Christian Science Monitor - now published only electronically, not printed on paper anymore - published an excellent and intriguing piece on e-books and e-readers (including the images above and more).
At Print CEO, the debate has been going on for quite some time; today we get another look. Here's what the Monitor had to say:
The year 2010 is widely seen as a tipping point when the e-book, once an avant-garde oddity, begins to supplant the hidebound codex. This transition, sweeping in scale, recalls nothing less than the move from stone tablets and scrolls to the bound volume.Already, the number of electronic texts is expanding exponentially, changing the very way we interact with the written word. Sony sells about 100,000 e-book titles through its online store; Barnes & Noble, a million; Amazon, 360,000. Book Search, an initiative headed by Google, has scanned more than 10 million texts since 2004. The Dostoevsky canon can now be searched the same way you search for the nearest Chinese restaurant.
Here are just a few of the posts that have appeared on PrintCEO in the last year; read what our authors (and readers) have to say:
Delay eBooks by four months? What are they thinking?
Developments in the eReader Market
Students at Princeton Pilot Kindle in the Classroom
