The New Yorker has an article about ebooks and the iPad versus the Kindle and Amazon versus Apple and the publishers. As per usual, lots of input from the publishers in this article, not a lot from the readers who actually want to buy ebooks and are being put off by the trifecta: DRM, pricing higher than the paperback, unavailability due to delayed release or geographic restrictions. From the article: “Publishers’ real concern is that the low price of digital books will destroy bookstores, which are their primary customers”. Not readers, but bookstores. And this is why readers are being denied what they want at a time when there is burgeoning competition for their time in digital entertainment. (And I personally don’t think embedding video and audio etc in ebooks in the way to compete with other forms of entertainment; when I read, I want to read, not watch a video).
Don’t worry, Alot is here to help you with your minor grammar mistakes.
I can’t even pretend this is related to reading or writing, but people stuck in the wrong country need some plane humour right now. Don’t forget the mouse-over text.
Bad — correction, the worst — SF covers.
Does anyone remember choose-your-own-adventure books?
