Abstract

The emerging trend in publishing is electronic publishing has given a new lease of life to authors and publishers alike. There is no doubt that electronic publishing has come to stay and in the provision of reading resources to the public, it is pushing the print publishing into oblivion. This paper, therefore, examined the receding culture of print publishing, the prospects and challenges of electronic publishing over the print. The paper concludes that stakeholders have to rise to the challenge of the new trend in publishing and find ways of overcoming the identified challenges in order to take full advantage that electronic publishing offers.