Not many people want to read books on the PCs that have been available. But now a portable platform is there, with hundreds of millions of users, and the software is free. The store is adding 150 titles every week. You might have seen the book online, and then ordered a copy to be printed on demand from our distribution center. At the end of digital distribution is the print book.
More books go out of print each year than are published.
This is a way to make 'out of print' obsolete. We want to see electronic publishing blow the covers off of books. Each of the press conference participants spoke of the importance of the event in building an industry. They will have a place in the digital world, but smaller than it is today. Now we're adding other needed titles of all types.