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A properly formatted chess eBook is much better than a paper copy. The ease of setting down the book without losing your place (and gee, why in the world would a chess player want to analyze a chess board while they're looking at a book?) is invaluable. And storing them is much easier in an eBook format as well.
So why are all my chess books paper? Because you can't sell an eBook, and it would end up costing me much more in net cost to buy them as eBooks, even with a dollar or two discount off the electronic version. And most chess eBooks are poorly formatted. Look at a sample of Irving Chernev's 200 Endgames, and you'll see that the puzzle and answer are on the same screen! Who covers up part of their ereader screen when a page break would be much better? That's actually harder than with a book.
So while I prefer a properly formatted eBook for chess, I only purchase paper. How would that compute in the survey?
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