Comments on: Misreading the consumer – publishers, ebooks and Gandhi http://www.teleread.org/2009/10/03/misreading-the-consumer-publishers-ebooks-and-gandhi/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:51:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Flood http://www.teleread.org/2009/10/03/misreading-the-consumer-publishers-ebooks-and-gandhi/comment-page-1/#comment-1146393 Flood Sun, 04 Oct 2009 20:23:34 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=29902#comment-1146393 After I read ebook on my Pocket Edition reader for the first time, I can't see myself going back to the hard-cover. For me, the ebook is so much easier to handle in bed than hard-cover -- it is lighter, smaller, and turning pages is much easier. Plus, I can adjust the text size to suit me. I know I will not be buying hard-cover books and most likely will not buy trade paperbacks either. After I read ebook on my Pocket Edition reader for the first time, I can’t see myself going back to the hard-cover. For me, the ebook is so much easier to handle in bed than hard-cover — it is lighter, smaller, and turning pages is much easier. Plus, I can adjust the text size to suit me.

I know I will not be buying hard-cover books and most likely will not buy trade paperbacks either.

]]> By: Christine http://www.teleread.org/2009/10/03/misreading-the-consumer-publishers-ebooks-and-gandhi/comment-page-1/#comment-1146308 Christine Sun, 04 Oct 2009 05:59:27 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=29902#comment-1146308 At this point, I'm more likely to buy, not a hardcover but a paperback, than a drm'd ebook. I am not buying any more drm'd ebooks. The paperback will probably cost about the same, and it will belong to me. At this point, I’m more likely to buy, not a hardcover but a paperback, than a drm’d ebook. I am not buying any more drm’d ebooks. The paperback will probably cost about the same, and it will belong to me.

]]> By: Blue Tyson http://www.teleread.org/2009/10/03/misreading-the-consumer-publishers-ebooks-and-gandhi/comment-page-1/#comment-1146282 Blue Tyson Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:11:56 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=29902#comment-1146282 I guarantee I won't buy a hardcover, actually. :) Not a pity in the longer term though, as if they fail to provide then sales decline, if that happens, maybe the companies will fail - and be replaced by something better afterwards. So if they don't provide what you are interested in, don't give them any money at all. Although I guess if you really want to read it, buy it from a secondhand place cheap sometime! :) I guarantee I won’t buy a hardcover, actually. :)

Not a pity in the longer term though, as if they fail to provide then sales decline, if that happens, maybe the companies will fail – and be replaced by something better afterwards.

So if they don’t provide what you are interested in, don’t give them any money at all.

Although I guess if you really want to read it, buy it from a secondhand place cheap sometime! :)

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