Most of you objections can be handled by using either the "Logos" or "Step" formats. Electronic Bible publishers are way ahead of the technical e-book people.
Marshall Harrison -----Original Message----- From: Brad Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 11:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DOTNET] [OT] eBooks (was Wrox) Curtis Koppang wrote: > I don't know why technical publishers (i.e. Wrox, MSPress, etc) have not > bought into the eBook thing yet. There's more money to be made in physical books, and the piracy problem of e-books really needs to be addressed (solidly) before it will become popular. Personally, I think e-books are a potential threat to traditional publishing, because anybody who wants to write a book can incur little or no expenses beyond his own time to write it, and then distribute it via some source like Amazon, thus cutting out the publisher altogether. The only interesting question left to answer is how to market the book... Brad -- Read my web log at http://www.quality.nu/dotnetguy/ You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
