Book industry cautiously optimistic about the Kindle, electronic books

October 20, 2008 - 12:47pm — Bibliofuture

The Frankfurt Book Fair just wrapped up, and one clear theme emerged from the show: people are willing to embrace digitized books, à la the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader, but they may need some time to get used to the idea.

For example, Penguin called such gadgets “mainstream” and no longer in “the province of geeks any longer.”