The point is that this kind of explosion generally doesn’t come from a market expected to stay small.
Despite the influx of e-reading devices out there, Jeff Gomez points out in his Guest Column that little has changed with e-readers and e-books the past 10 years. Sony and Amazon brought e-readers to the attention of the mass market, but these devices have been around for some time (and have been talked about for decades longer), and obstacles to their mainstream adoption still exist.
Editor's Note: E-books and Our Future
The point is that this kind of explosion generally doesn’t come from a market expected to stay small.
Despite the influx of e-reading devices out there, Jeff Gomez points out in his Guest Column that little has changed with e-readers and e-books the past 10 years. Sony and Amazon brought e-readers to the attention of the mass market, but these devices have been around for some time (and have been talked about for decades longer), and obstacles to their mainstream adoption still exist.