Based on the fact that consumer e-books sales (within the first 5 months of 2011 overtook all adult hardback books sales) the American Publishing Industry (although they report that it’ll ultimately wind-up differently) looks to be going the (route) way of the Music and Newspaper Industries (e.g., dying painfully slow deaths to put it bluntly / mildly).
From the Economist: http://goo.gl/weufZ