Books and Innovation: the next step

I’ve always thought that ebooks would have become the replacement for the normal books. I would have expected this to start some years ago, but it seems that the market is still unresponsive to the new method of distributing Literature: why?

I admit that I’m a skeptical myself of leaving the good old paper, but I was also one of the early adopter of the .lit format while I was using an iPaq. That solution was not working (screen too small and too bright), and todays ebook reader are still too expensive.

Maybe tomorrow, with the advent of the iPhone and all the similar things that will follow, there will be another way for distributing the contents without requiring the paper! I’d love to have 1.000 teenagers telling me how they will read the new bestsellers in five years time.

What do you think? Will we use the same old method or will we move to a new method for distributing digital contents for literature as we did for music and video?