Will eReaders really displace the Bound book in the near future?
I ran drafts of this article to fellow authors and a few publishers at respected houses and that prompted me to add this section. The predominant belief is that eBooks and eReaders will not displace the bound book for quite some time, if ever. I’ve stated that this will happen, but I haven’t put real time limits on the events that it will take to make this happen yet. I’ll take the bold step and predict that within five years, viable eReaders will be available and the sales of eBooks will increase ten-fold. I put the next big event occurring within ten years, when eReaders will become ubiquitous and inexpensive enough for most households to afford. They will also become feature rich by then. This leaves the time when eBooks and eReaders completely displace the bound book, and they will no longer be printed, making the bound book a thing of the past like vinyl records, rotary phones, CRT computer monitors, or within a year CRT Televisions3. They simply won’t make them anymore. I see thi
