E-readers and Mystery Books

Dead tree books?

Panzer was tootling around in the Catosphere and found the Poe's Deadly Daughters blog.

Sandra Parshall has an interesting post about e-readers and today's mystery market. She quotes statistics that show while ebook sales for mystery books have increased those for tradition (dead tree) books have declined. So ... the question is: Are ebooks killing dead tree books?

If you want to know about the state of the current mystery market (and what are you doing at Cats and Crime if you don't?), tootle over and read The Smoking E-book