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继2000年之后,电子书(eBook)今年再度成为传统出版业、图书发行业、IT业、图书馆业以及读者关注的热门话题。根据贸易团体开放电子书论坛(Open eBook Forum即OeBF)的统计,2004年第一季电子书的总销售金额为323万美元。当然,这个数字与数百亿美元的实体书市场难以相比,但它却代表了28％的年度增长,显示着电子书市场的表现可望达到全年的乐观预期。尽管营收依然微薄,业界的这些调查却显示,电子书的销售出现令人激励的增长。出
After 2000, e-books again became a hot topic in traditional publishing industry, book publishing industry, IT industry, library industry and readers’ readership this year. According to the Open eBook Forum, OeBF, total sales of e-books in the first quarter of 2004 were $ 3.23 million. Of course, this number is hard to compare with the tens of billions of dollars of physical book market, but it represents 28% of annual growth, indicating that the e-book market is expected to achieve optimistic expectations throughout the year. Although the revenue is still modest, these surveys in the industry show an encouraging growth in the sales of e-books. Out