In five years eBooks will be 50% of book sales according to Gina Centrello, President and Publisher of The Random House Publishing Group last week . She said that last year eBooks represented 3% of Random House's market and this year it will be about 10%.
Because eBooks are the next wave, Centrello questioned if digital books should become more than just a channel of distribution. Still, she thinks that a book will still be about story.
While a technology may change, Centrello said that a publisher's core mission remains the same: To deliver books to readers. "A publisher's job is to deliver books in any form that the reader wants to read them," she said.