Moore's Law actually has nothing to do with ebooks: "Moore's law is an empirical observation stating, in effect, that at our rate of technological development and advances in the semiconductor industry, the complexity of integrated circuits doubles every 18 months." (From Wikipedia.) Michael Hart likes to compare PG growth with Moore's Law, but nobody should place too much importance on this. The important thing is that PG continues to grow, and that it continues to develop. Steve Miranda van de Heijning wrote:
Perhaps I don't understand Moore's Law properly, but aren't we actually well behind on its schedule? If we published our 10,000th book at the end of 2003, doubling in 1.5 years means 20,000 books in mid-2005. At the current rate we are not likely to reach that figure--anywhere between 16k and 17k seems more realistic.
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