Amazon now sells 105 e-books for every 100 printed books, this is the first time in history that Amazon has sold more e-books than regular print books (Rapaport 2011). Today's world is becoming more technologically advanced, so businesses have had to adapt to keep up with consumer demands. Today, even librarians recognize e-readers as a great option for their libraries. In some places, programs have even been created to help show seniors how to use these devices. This still leaves the question of where will books go from here? The creation of digital or electronic books began in 1971 with Project Guttenberg. Michael Hart wanted to allow people to access a wide variety of texts at no cost to them. He started by searching for available books in libraries and scanning them to create a digital copy. The digital copy of the book could be easily scanned, recreated and inserted into a system capable of indexing it and making it easily searchable (Lebert, 2009). This was the first time that books were transformed into digital formats. As the technology behind the Internet began to improve, it became available to more people. In the 1990s, the number of digital texts available online was increasing rapidly, which led many people to wonder whether the Internet would overtake regular books. The Internet actually increased the number of people reading around the world because it made texts more easily available. Eventually, companies began using the web as a means of advertising” (Lebert, 2009). In the United States, NAP (National Academy Press) was the first publisher in 1994 to publish the full text of some books for free, with the consent of the authors” (Lebert 20). In the end...... half of the document......http://www.etudes-francaises.net/dossiers/ebookEN.pdfLisa Rapaport. (2011, May 19). Amazon.com says Kindle e-book sales outpace print books for the first time. Bloomberg. Retrieved from http://www.bloomberg.com.Shawn Murdok (2012). Traditional books vs. digital players. Retrieved from http://mastersineducation.org/files/2011/08/ReaderInfographicLrg.jpgSusan Gibbons. (2000, October). Ebook: some concerns and surprises. Retrieved from http://www.lib.rochester.edu/main/EBOOKS/studies/1.1gibbons.pdfTerence Cavanaugh. (2002, November). Ebooks and accommodations: is this the future of printed accommodations? Retrieved from http://www.sbac.edu/~werned/DATA/RESEARCH/journals/Teaching Exceptional Children JOURNAL/ebooks and accomm.pdf7 things you should know about e-readers. (2010, March). . Retrieved from http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7058.pdf