O’Reilly Forges Ahead with New E-Content Initiative
Tim has announced O’Reilly is now offering books on a per chapter basis. That is you can buy an entire e-book, or just the chapter(s) you want, and it appears they will be rolling it out across their entire catalog. Tim likens this development to the music industry shift away from albums and [...]
What Should an e-Book Be?
Yesterday, as part of my Suggested Reading I posted a link to a great post at one of my favorite programming blogs, Coding Horror. The post is generating a lot of conversation about technology books, and in this case the books are 2 programming titles - one of which makes use of color in its [...]
Cory Doctorow on e-Books
Cory Doctorow has a nice piece in Locus magazine concerning e-books and the cliché argument that people don’t like reading on a screen. Actually he points out people do like reading on a screen, and many do it all day long.
I don’t like reading off a computer screen” — it’s a cliché of [...]
