Outlook on eBook Business

I've been aware of ebooks since long ago. In fact, I was scouring the
Internet for ebooks of all sorts, including literature and technical
books years ago. I haven't been collecting ebooks for quite a while,
but when I checked recently for an economy textbook, I found tons of
ebooks, including various collegiate books. That's intellectual bonanza.



Anyway,
what I am trying to say is, is it reasonably feasible to make profits
from ebooks? Just take a look at all the publications and audio books
circulating in the IRC networks and sharing networks.



When
a publisher sends manuscripts of books in PDF form to a printing house,
some of these manuscripts get leaked to the Internet. Even if the
manuscripts are in encrypted PDF form, it's possible to break the encryption. Years back, there was one hacker who succeeded in breaking the encryption but got arrested by FBI (Poor guy, what about freedom of speech).



However,
if someone becomes successful in selling ebooks for reading on cell
phones or iPods, ebooks can possibly become a profitable trend.



Recent rampant success of Apple iPhone and its App Store
has opened opportunities for many entrepreneurs. I don't own an iPhone,
hence I don't know what's available in the iPhone App Store. But
piggybacking on iPhone madness, developing an ebook reader for iPhone
and making deals with publishers or even wanna-be writers might be a
good business idea.



Anyway, if you are into serious classic literature without much concern for modern recyclable literary garbages, I recommend Project Gutenberg. Gutenberg is a wonderful philanthropic repository of copyright-free literature.