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spellbanisher · 08-16-2013, 08:54 PM

I'd imagine the split would vary depending on the kind of nonfiction ebook. Recent memoirs and biographies probably have a split closer to fiction. Textbooks and reference books probably have even greater disparities.

The majority of academic books i read, history monographs, aren't even available in ebook form. These aren't textbooks or image heavy books. Most of them don't even have pictures. It is irksome that a substantial proportion of the history monographs available in ebook form lack hyperlinked end notes or even a functioning table of contents.

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spellbanisher Guru Posts: 826 Karma: 6566849 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Bay Area Device: kindle keyboard, kindle fire hd, S4, Nook hd+	I'd imagine the split would vary depending on the kind of nonfiction ebook. Recent memoirs and biographies probably have a split closer to fiction. Textbooks and reference books probably have even greater disparities. The majority of academic books i read, history monographs, aren't even available in ebook form. These aren't textbooks or image heavy books. Most of them don't even have pictures. It is irksome that a substantial proportion of the history monographs available in ebook form lack hyperlinked end notes or even a functioning table of contents. Last edited by spellbanisher; 08-16-2013 at 08:56 PM.