#E-books and the Future of Publishing

Just a few years ago, e-books arrived on the publishing scene. No one took them seriously in the early days. After all, who would want to read a book on an electronic device? Why should they pay the same price for an e-book as for the hard copy of a book? Where was the value?

As the years passed, increasing numbers of people purchased e-books. The publishing industry began to worry a bit, but still felt comfortable in its position as the only real way to publish books.

Time passed and e-book reading devices improved. More companies joined the "fad", setting up websites to sell e-books. More small publishers saw the opportunities. It became easy to publish an e-book, but still rather difficult to sell the book in electronic form.

But, consumers began to pay attention to e-books. Sales began to increase. More people began to publish e-books and the rest, as they say, is history.

Now, traditional publishing houses are buying the rights to successfully self-published e-books and successful authors who published with traditional publishing houses are branching out on their own to sell e-books.

The book industry is being turned upside-down.

Denise

www.inktreemarketing.com
www.publishacookbook.com