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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Baen's ebook evangelist explains why he thinks so, in an article in Baen's Universe electronic magazine.
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Dennis |
One big advantage that ebooks have is the nearly instant availability of books. I can get books from Project Gutenberg or other free or pay sources in almost no time at all, and the selection is far greater than what I can find locally. Granted the number of titles available is still dwarfed by what's available in paper from Amazon and such, but this will improve over time.
As an example. Someone posted a link on the Kindlekorner mailing list to a WaPo op-ed piece kind of bashing the Kindle, and pointing out this great obscure book the author had gotten on a recommendation from a bookseller and how you just didn't get that from ebooks. Shortly thereafter a list member pointed out that this book was an excerpt from a larger work available from Project Gutenberg. A couple of minutes later I had a nicely formatted copy of the original book on my Kindle, at no charge, and without having to hunt it down.