Did you see the numbers for e-reader sales for last year, particularly the ones for the fourth quarter, as Christmas approached?
Have you heard that eBook sales of bestsellers have been beating physical book numbers in the new year?
Are you sick to fucking death of endless tastemaker proclamations, manufacturer projections and tech-blog suppositions heralding the death of the printed book? You know, the ones that range in expression from "BOOKS ARE DEAD" to "ARE BOOKS DEAD?"
Sigh.
This article appears in Feb 10-16, 2011.