E-books have finally seemed to take hold in the marketplace in a big way. The major publishers are selling more e-books than they are paper books, and Christian publishers will not be far behind in captializing on this trend.
Hachette recently announced that James Patterson had sold 1.14 million e-books to date, the first author to top the one million e-book sales list. Of those, 867,881 were Kindle books.
Five authors– Charlaine Harris, Stieg Larsson, Stephenie Meyer, James Patterson and Nora Roberts, have each sold more than 500,000 Kindle books, according to Amazon. “Over the past three months for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 143 Kindle books. Over the past month, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon.com has sold, it has sold 180 Kindle books.”
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The number of books available as iPhone apps now exceeds the number of games. The iPad–and better functioning iPad-like devices being released by other companies soon–is likely to spark a reading revolution that will also touch the Christian writers and publishers.
Most churches have pretty stern rules about the use of electronic devices during church services. Texting draws frowns from worshipers seated nearby, and a ringing cell phone can be grounds for excommunication. But a new poll by 
Generations, like people, have personalities, and Millennials — the American teens and twenty-somethings who are making the passage into adulthood at the start of a new millennium — have begun to forge theirs: confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat and open to change, according to a new report released by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life. And the Millennials have very definite view about matters of faith. 
In the very near future most of us will be carrying around an electronic device that we will use to read books and magazines, listen to music, surf the Internet, pay bills online and a multitude of other things. Even pastors and Sunday school teachers will be using them as a reference for their notes, and people in the pews will be using them to read their Bibles and take notes on the message. 
