e-reader : 2010 to be a confirmation that edition will go to electronic

After the noisy announcement of Apple ipad and all the new Android e-readers to come this year, 2010 looks to be the year of a new area : electronic edition versus paper. Already millions of people now own Kindles or Sony e-reader. And more important Kindle owners read, a lot. When Amazon have both editions : paper and e-book, they sell 6 Kindle books (ebook for Amazon e-reader) for every 10 physical books. This is year-to-date and includes only paid books — free Kindle books would make the number even higher.
There is now a competition on which format should be e-books : propriatary or e-pub. e-pub is supported by Apple and Google, so....Wikipedia has got a definition of EPUB : electronic publication alternatively capitalized as ePub, EPub, or epub, with "EPUB" preferred by the vendor, is a  content, meaning that the text display can be optimized for the particular display device. The format is meant to function as a single format that publishers and conversion houses can use in-house, as well as for distribution and sale. It supersedes the Open eBook (more).
It will be interesting to see how european and specially french editors will cope or not......
Here after some statistics :
US Trade Wholesale Electronic Book Sales

Source : http://www.idpf.org/doc_library/industrystats.htm
China and Taiwan agreed in principal to promote the EPUB e-book format for the Chinese-language market which will give a push to this market in Asia and so world wide. 


Source : http://www.pcworld.com/article/183506/china_and_taiwan_agree_to_promote_epub_ebook_standard.html