This just in, courtesy of Seth Godin:

The number of ebooks published in 2012 is going to exceed a million, easily. That’s more than 8 times as many books as were published to the public a year ago.

I’ve been talking about this trend for quite some time now. If you’re in the audience business (and you are), the self-publishing gold rush is on.

Ebooks are now one of the most powerful, disruptive forces in publishing and marketing today.