Research by Andersen Consulting predicts that sales of e-books - which will mainly be downloaded onto handheld reader devices - will total $2.3bn worldwide by 2005, a significant proportion of the $21.9bn industry.
Random House said it made the decision to cease operations at AtRandom due to the e-book market failing to take off as hoped as consumers continue to favour traditional bound books bought in bookshops - whether online or offline.
Not until people become more accustomed to reading books on PCs, say traders and industry associations. As a result of the increasing ease and speed with which a book can be scanned and repackaged into an e-book format with common technology, the...
Once touted as the future of publishing, e-books - digitised books that can viewed on PCs, handheld computers and specialized reading devices - have yet to gain a significant share of the market. The Adobe Digital Media Store offers books from...
It's simple enough to look at new computers bought quarter-on-quarter; it's somewhat more difficult to make accurate predictions on the installed, existing user base. Predictions of Apple's imminent demise used to be a common event in the...
CFSK also works with schools to establish up-to-date curriculum, replacing often long-outdated text books with far more relevant and challenging course materials. The widespread adoption of thin client computing as well as cached web pages on a...