The New York Times’ writer Bob Tedeschi’s article in Personal Tech: “E-Reader Applications for Today, and Beyond” describes the current state of buying eBooks and makes some predictions about the future for the eBook Revolution. As we’ve been saying since the start, one of the main things holding mainstream adoption back is the publisher and distributor insistence on content and product control based on DRM or tethered eBook formats.
Their product tampering and limitation on use make the buying public justifiably leery about diving into the revolution. It also explains why free eBooks are doing so well. People want to be able to read their eBooks when and where they want.
This, while the market is reporting ‘explosive’ figures. It’s just a matter of time before some smart publishers realize their own policies are slowing sales and they’ll take the chains off the EPUB format.
