This is interesting to me. I remember an overly-optimistic ebook market made a bit of a false start back in the mid-to-late 1990s. While PDAs such as the Palm Pilot suddenly made dealing in ebooks much more practical, there were not enough people using the devices at that time.

Heck, in the mid-1990s there were still many people with no home computers, no Internet access. And the general public were still not using cell phones, let alone a PDA. So the ebook market looked pretty flat, after it flopped a decade ago.

But today things have changed. Most households do have Internet access. Most people have a cell phones, and many cell phones can view documents. Amazon and other companies are selling specialized readers with a good degree of success, and netbooks, which are super-portable and great an ebook, are selling like hotcakes.

Maybe the future looks bright for the ebook market after all.

VOA News – US Sales of Electronic-Books Increasing: “The Association of American Publishers says e-book (electronic book), sales topped $12 million in June – up more than 150 percent from the same month last year.”