IT is time for readers of eBooks to be heard, to turn the page, so to speak, on their eReader.
I love me print books, reading them, writing them, publishing them. But I am disheartened by the stall in eBook sales.
Figures show eBook sales have plateaued in the past 12 months
The New York Times tells us eBook sales fell by 10 percent in the first five months of this year. The NYT quotes the Association of American Publishers which collects data from 1200 publishers. AAP crunched numbers to declare digital books to be about 20 per cent of the market, the same as they were a few years ago.
Those of us who predicted eBooks would dominate the market are still many a year shy of seeing it happen.
I believe it will happen and I do not see much downside. Print books will always remain viable just as stand-up comedians preserve the oral tradition which dominated story-telling before universal literacy.
