{"id":155,"date":"2009-09-11T21:20:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T02:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/?p=155"},"modified":"2014-01-31T09:03:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T14:03:38","slug":"ebooks-which-path-will-be-the-right-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"eBooks : which path will be the right path?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-154\" title=\"George's Path\" src=\"http:\/\/38enso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Georges-Path-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"George's Path\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/38enso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Georges-Path-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/38enso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Georges-Path-450x600.jpg 450w, http:\/\/38enso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Georges-Path.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>eBooks are all the rage.\u00a0 The next step in the 500 year history of the book.\u00a0 This is a bold new world and people are confused.\u00a0 The future is not so certain.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What % of books are currently eBooks?\u00a0 (most put it at 2%).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>What % will it be in a year?\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>2 years?\u00a0 5 Years?\u00a0 10 years?<\/li>\n<li>When will the eBook surpass the pBook?\u00a0 Will it ever happen?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have the answers.\u00a0 But then no one really does.\u00a0 We all have guesses.\u00a0 We all put the facts together, place our bets and hope we are on the right path.\u00a0 It is important to be engrossed in eBooks, to accept them as another\u00a0format of \u00a0reading.\u00a0 If the consumer chooses to read an eBook, why should the publishers refuse to provide?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Too many take too slow a path, too cautious.\u00a0 One day, they will wake up and realize that the readers will have left them.\u00a0 Hopefully it won&#8217;t be too late.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ten years will pass me by, no one told me when to run, I missed the starting gun.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8212;&#8212;&#8211; <em>Time<\/em> by Pink Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>A interesting side note.\u00a0 This market is nearly impossible to get reliable statistics given the main players are keeping information confidential.\u00a0 I understand their reasoning, but one day it will all be open.\u00a0 Many discussions revolve around the Kindle, Sony Reader and a possible entry by Apple into the mix.\u00a0 That is all great and each has it&#8217;s merits.\u00a0 But right now, over 60% of the eBook readers do so on laptops and computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eBooks are all the rage.\u00a0 The next step in the 500 year history of the book.\u00a0 This is a bold &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/38enso.com\/?p=155\" class=\"more-link\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/38enso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}