[FRIAM] Amazon Says E-Book Sales Outpace Hardcovers - WSJ.com

2010-07-20 Thread Owen Densmore
Interesting: Amazon ebooks surpass hardcover books: http://tinyurl.com/2esb5x6 With both a kindle and an ipad, I find I'm reading a lot more ebooks. The complete works of Sherlock Holmes on the kindle just now ($.99) and two computer tech books (HTML5, JavaScript) from SitePoint ($5.00

Re: [FRIAM] Amazon Says E-Book Sales Outpace Hardcovers - WSJ.com

2010-07-20 Thread Robert Holmes
Owen - I nearly got myself the new Kindle DX precisely because I have tons of technical PDFs and no simple portable way of reading them (hey, my failing eyesight means if it's not on 8.5 x 11 I can't see it...). The Kindle was getting dinged by a lot of people for its poor PDF support (no

Re: [FRIAM] Amazon Says E-Book Sales Outpace Hardcovers - WSJ.com

2010-07-20 Thread Owen Densmore
(Interesting: Your email made me check; I just found out that there is an update for the kindle so I installed it to see if the pdf reading has changed: http://tinyurl.com/coo6qu It does include a pdf change for pan/zoom) On Jul 20, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Robert Holmes wrote: Owen - I nearly got