So what does the future hold for digital reading? On Monday, Forrester Research analysts Sarah Rotman Epps and James L. McQuivey posted some interesting predictions for the booming e-reader market in 2010.
In The Wall Street Journal, Google CEO Eric Schmidt says that the Internet will not destroy news organizations. He says that Google working in cooperation with publishers of newspapers and magazines can help bring about a business model to share ad revenue from searches." />
But converting image-heavy books into digital form has not been easy. Authors are careful to monitor how their work appears on a screen, and publishers have struggled to replicate the experience of reading a print book
The prices of e-books with pictures be generally in line with print prices.
Some publishers have also had success breaking into the digital space by turning books into applications for mobile devices
Publishers win a big one in confrontation with Apple. No more requirement that content subscriptions must go through Apple, no more 30% revenue sharing with Apple, and control of user/reader information remains w/publishers.