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 on sale last
week). They certainly weigh less! (Great for large travel books, for example)
I think tech book are going to be majority ebooks soon, simply because they go
out of date so quickly. The tech folks are doing a good job of making a book a
complete experience, including multiple formats (epub, pdf, mobi). Most
formats now have an app (ipad, iphone, ipad, android, desktop) so the books can
be used on multiple devices.
It'll be nice when they have fewer formats, or at least all devices handle them
all.
-- Owen
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