Comments on: Yet other good news for e-books: Notebooks making up 71 percent of Apple sales http://www.teleread.org/2009/01/27/yet-other-good-news-for-e-books-notebooks-making-up-71-percent-of-apple-sales/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:18:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Greg M. http://www.teleread.org/2009/01/27/yet-other-good-news-for-e-books-notebooks-making-up-71-percent-of-apple-sales/comment-page-1/#comment-1007661 Greg M. Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:08:03 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/01/27/yet-other-good-news-for-e-books-notebooks-making-up-71-percent-of-apple-sales/#comment-1007661 Since I intend to retire my Windows PC for a MacBook Pro in the next few months, I definitely would like to see more options for ebooks available on the Mac like Mobipocket Reader and Mobipocket Creator. However, it is unlikely that I'll ever actually read an entire ebook on it. I have a PDA, I have a Kindle, and someday I might even get an iPhone; my reading will done done on those devices. I would still like the ability to create, review, and edit an ebook before sending it to my Kindle. Eliminating the PDF may, at least I hope so, spur the need for other formats on the Mac. I fully support the purge of the PDF. Its faults are legion for handhelds. It needs to go away as an ebook format everywhere, not just at Amazon. Since I intend to retire my Windows PC for a MacBook Pro in the next few months, I definitely would like to see more options for ebooks available on the Mac like Mobipocket Reader and Mobipocket Creator. However, it is unlikely that I’ll ever actually read an entire ebook on it. I have a PDA, I have a Kindle, and someday I might even get an iPhone; my reading will done done on those devices. I would still like the ability to create, review, and edit an ebook before sending it to my Kindle. Eliminating the PDF may, at least I hope so, spur the need for other formats on the Mac.

I fully support the purge of the PDF. Its faults are legion for handhelds. It needs to go away as an ebook format everywhere, not just at Amazon.

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