The Future Of Books

Mike Shatzkin imagines the publishing industry ten years from now:

The robust e-book marketmore than 50 percent of the sales of many titles (also a bit more than 10 years off)will have been fueled by features built into e-books that can’t be replicated in print versions. For example, e-books will frequently use moving images as illustrations, rather than stills. And, of course, e-books all will have links, which will be consistently listed as the No. 1 deficiency responsible for the rapid abandonment of paper books.