The world is changing and this can be very well be seen in the publishing world as well, which is asserting that now electronic books are in.

The change is bringing several New York publishing houses to delay releasing books in their electronic format for months.

There are a growing number of readers who can access books stores online and read those using computers and mobile internet devices. Some are stored on internet and others can be downloaded and stored.

"Once people try an e-book, it's a 'wow' experience", e-book retailer Mark Coker said.

There is run between Google and Amazon as per the analysts to see whether Google will win and become the first platform to allow consumers to gain access to titles online and read them over cloud computing networks, or will the Amazon’s Kindle device, which allows customers to download single titles and store them on their own drives, emerge as the winner.

OverDrive, the library e-book distributor, has sensed that these e-books will increase to 19 million in 2009.

New reader devices are also all dressed-up to hit the markets from many companies such as Mountain View-based Plastic Logic, Fremont-based Spring Design and Apple.