Report from Frankfurter Book Fair on the state of e-readers
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It looks like publishers have finally accepted the idea of e-readers being a legitimate part of the book market, judging by their comments at this year's Frankfurter Book Fair, according to Reuters:
Penguin publishers Chief Executive John Makinson told Reuters: "They have become mainstream in the sense that they are a genuine consumer product for which there is real appetite, so this is not the province of geeks any longer."
Makinson said Penguin was now publishing all new titles both as printed books and e-books and was digitalizing its backlist.
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