Emerging Industry Overview: Electronic Publishing
Industry Snapshot
Though an anathema to some literary purists, the explosive future of electronic publishing seemed etched in stone by the new millennium. With communication and commerce rapidly shifting to the Internet, publishers of all stripes were increasingly forced to look to this channel as a way of augmenting sales or risk being left behind. Most of the world's classics, from Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf to James Baldwin, already could be retrieved on the World Wide Web. Retail book giants such as Barnes & Noble were forced into the electronic commerce market to hedge against...