Apple declared they will launch the new tablet PC. It has wider screen but most speculations are disclosed. A few months before, Amazon put their brand new Kindle-e book reader- to the market.
Though music, game, even cartoon and animation, many contents are made for online(exactly, digital), book industry has not changed a lot. Most people used to read a paper book and very small portion of people read an e-book. The reason why e-book is not spreaded like other contents is related the rate of device for reading a book.
After Kindle, the market is rapidly changing. Including Amanzon, many mega-manufacturers such as Sony, Samsung have an interest in this market.
Just think about the music market. Though the book publishers and copyright holders don’t want to distribute e book but paper book for their profit or value chain, the rapid rate of distribution of e-book reader wiil makes readers’ needs for e-book contents. Simply paradigm shift.
And the main issue which decides the distribution speed is the competitiveness of the device itself including price.