According to an article in USA Today , 21% of the nearly 3,000 people asked had read an ebook since December last year. This indicates a big change in the way people are buying and reading books, a change which looks set to continue snowballing. And of course that's more good news for writers - not just American writers, either, because in case this fact has slipped you by somehow, people from all around the world can now buy ebooks from writers who live all around the world. I still say paper books won't vanish altogether, but will become the preserve of big art and photography books - right up until the day when an ereader can also act as a projector, so its user(s) can see a big version of whatever's on the screen. When you look at a painting, you want to be able to see it in sharp detail rather than squint at a fuzzy, pixilated miniature version. The demise of the familiar pulp paperback format is, however, inevitable. I won't mourn its passing. Last time