Confusion and Instability in the E-Book Market
The e-book marketplace is in a state of flux. Vendors, technologies and business models are evolving. As noted by Crawford, many of the major e-book market players from 2000, including Librius, ZeroHour and Glassbook, have either folded or been absorbed by other, larger vendors (2006, 43). Technological standards for e-book hardware and software have yet to be clearly defined, in part because the technologies available for e-books have not yet stabilized