The Electronic Book at a Glance offers a critical view of the central issues around the e-book: its background; the debates about its definition and characteristics; the new ways of publishing, and the makeover of agents: from how the author is conceived to the creation of new models of distribution and marketing, and it gives thought on the road ahead. This is a text that examines different aspects of the transformation that books are going through, and that imply a true metamorphosis.