After Random House bought Sony Readers for its entire sales team, an agent who would rather not tell you his name wrote me to comment on the number of publishers who are using the e-book readers to distribute galleys and manuscripts without all that cumbersome paper. “Electronic is better for everyone, and I bet much more than half of submissions (at least for non-fiction proposals) are already being submitted by agents electronically now,” he says, “[but] Sony Readers don’t handle PDF files, which means we have less control of formatting when we are forced to send an RTF.”