13 April 2015
Do print versions still have an advantage over electronic formats? Ebook sales may be reaching a plateau but Dan Cohen argues there may be much more dark reading going on than the stats are showing. A huge and growing percentage of ebooks are being sold by indie publishers or authors themselves, and a third of them don't even have ISBNs, the universal ID used to track most books, so these figures may be slow to catch up. Cohen suspects that we're not going to have to wait very long for ebooks to become predominant.
