One Step Ahead

E-books (electronic books that can be read on a screen) are the fastest-growing market in the publishing industry, according to a study from the Open eBook Forum. However, they are still only a very small part of the total market, which saw over 2.2 billion books sold in the USA in 2003.

It's good to see e-books growing in popularity, though we're a long way away from them coming even close to competing with printed books. Anyway, I don't think they are direct competitors. E-books serve a very different purpose from printed books, and people buy them for different reasons. I'll be talking about this in my presentation The Three Biggest Mistakes Authors Make With E-Books at the Professional Speakers Association conference in the U.K. in November.