LJNDawson.com, Consulting to the Book Publishing Industry
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What I Know So Far (about ebooks)

After doing research for a number of clients on the ebook market over the last year, I've managed to come up with some actual data.

My unshakeable conclusions so far:
Ebooks exist.
Epub is a format.
Kindles exist.
Sony Readers exist.
Romance is the top selling category of all books.
Romance is the top selling category of ebooks.

Squishy conclusions:
Kindles are not for people who have large hands.
Ebooks are a growing market.
Sony Readers are less convenient than Kindles to load.
Ebook readers are for business travelers.
There will be color displays on ebook readers eventually.

Wild prognostications:
The devices will go the way of the Rocket Ebook.
The devices will get more refined and more popular.
The iPhone will be the next e-reader.
The iPhone will never be a suitable e-reader.
Printed books will never die.
Global warming will end the book market as we know it, and printed books will become like illuminated manuscripts, a luxury.
The ebook market will turn into something else – digital books are a stopgap form of entertainment.
The ebook market will become absolutely huge, particularly with college students.

It must be 5:00 somewhere....
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