I thought about starting a drinking game that involved taking a sip of water (boring, I know) every time I read an article that contained the phrase “smell of paper”, or “smell of a book” while reading articles on e-books. The end result? I had to pee after about 45 seconds.
There is an article in the New York Times, and the phrase is used by the second paragraph.
I can’t help but wonder if people talked about the ‘feel of the needle’ when discussing records and the move to the ‘newfangled’ cassette tape.
Anyway, a few interesting tidbits from the article (which I thought on the whole felt like they were really stretching to make a point) by the end of this year an estimated 10 million folks will have e-readers of some kind. That is a pretty decent market, especially when you consider that number was 3.7 million last year.
The article also mentions last year 30 million e-books had been sold, and estimates for this year are at 100 million.
We’ll see how things shake out in the coming months.
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