The age of the ebook has finally arrived after a bit of a shaky start back in the 80s and 90s.

It fell flat for three reasons: they were too expensive; the selection was too small and proprietary file formats and the digital rights management technology, which protected the ebooks from piracy, created problems.

But in March 2000 thriller writer Stephen King became the first author to publish his latest novel exclusively on the net and there was a dramatic turnaround.

Bag of Bones sold 500,000 copies in 48 hours. One e-publisher said at the time: "He's done for e-publishing in one week what it might have taken us years to accomplish."

Publishing giants like Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Penguin and Random House have all leapt on board - but how does the small publisher cope?

How will the small, by comparison, independent Welsh publishers such as Gomer or Parthian fare in the wake of the technological revolution in the publishing industry?

Join Sarah Dickins and guests as they discuss the future of publishing in Wales. That's Wales@Work, Tuesday 3 July at 6.32pm and repeated on Sunday 8 July 2007 at 7.03am.