The flood gates are about to open, with the announcement that JK Rowling is negotiating for all her Harry Potter books to be released as e-books.
Not only will this trigger a huge rise on e-reader sales, on top of the expansion already happening, but more importantly this will be the day e-books come of age.
At the moment most paper-based publishers treat the e-book market as a useful sideline to their main business of selling paper books.
With Rowling expected to net
one hundred million pounds from the deal - and that just a small percentage of what her publishers will make - we can expect the other big names to follow suit in a big way.
No timetable has been given, but safe to presume Christmas 2011 will see e-reader sales hit the stratosphere as a Kndle / Nook/ Sony / whatever becomes a must-have accessory, and Harry Potter will hold the top seven places in the e-book charts.
For anyone still on the fence about e-publishing, now is most definitely the time to take the plunge.
For more in this story see: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/2011/04/03/harry-potter-author-jk-rowling-set-to-give-green-light-to-ebooks-and-rake-in-100m-86908-23035230/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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