The book industry thinks its digital transformation is happening even faster than it did with music and movies.

At the GigaOm Big Data conference in New York City this week, Barnes & Noble (BKS) executive Marc Parrish took the stage to discuss rapid changes in the book publishing industry.

"The book business is changing more radically now, and quicker, than movies or music or newspapers have, because we're doing it in a matter of months," he said. "In [the] next 24 months is when this business will totally shift," implying that eBooks will dominate sales. (Note: In a post-conference follow-up, Parrish now says he didn't mean to put a specific timeline on the shift.)

Read the full article: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/03/25/barnes-noble-ebooks-will-pass-print-in-2-years/

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