Best-selling mystery writer Patricia Cornwell breathed life into the character Dr. Kay Scarpetta, but she is also hoping to jump-start the e-book market. Cornwell, along with Stephen King and others, was among the first authors to sell her work in electronic form. She was also an early adopter of the RCA REB 1100 eBook. Cornwell thinks there is a future for e-books, and they can change the way people read, as well as what they read.

Will e-books send books out to pasture?
I don't see this replacing your average person's library. I see it as an enhancement to the library—a more portable way to have your library with you. And if it can have six or seven newsmagazines on it, that's going to be its strength. Also, I can very well see the day when students will use it. Imagine if you could carry all your textbooks to class in a little handheld computer.

People are creatures of habit. Can e-books really change the way we read?
I suspect so. As you know from writing on a computer, what you read on a computer sounds a little different than when you read it on paper. If people have 10 or 20 books on an e-book device, they will be much more discerning about what they read, because if they start reading something and it really doesn't hold their interest, they can immediately go into something else. So I think it's going to put a very big demand on writers. If you haven't done a really great job with what they're reading, or it doesn't suit their taste, well, they may just boot right out of you.
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