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While traditional ink-on-paper books will dominate the Miami Book Fair International, paperless electronic books are gaining traction as the wave of the future……
….For all the speculation over whether e-books will catch on and whether books of any sort will have an audience in the coming years, George Burke, chief executive officer of BookSwim.com, sees a silver lining.
BookSwim, which operates in a similar way to Netflix — it rents books at a small fee, ships them for free, provides free return shipping containers, and doesn’t charge late fees — has seen its profits rise in 2008.
”It isn’t the same as e-books, but what it indicates is that people who love books are more than willing to trade in them using Web technology the same as they would movies or TV shows,” Burke says. “I believe that love for traditional books won’t change. But e-books will enhance that love even more.”