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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg

Why is it that when I read a positive big five book review in the (horrors!) New York Times, I can generally reserve the eBook from the Brooklyn Public Library, or one of our Pennsylvania public libraries? And why is that when it's from one of the smaller or international publishers, I generally cannot? Is it because innovation, for those publishers, means to focus on consumers rather than readers in mass? If that's the innovation, I'm against it.

I have no idea what this means. Are you saying that small publishers don't end up in the library? Have you checked to see if the book is available for your library to buy, and if so, have you asked your library to purchase it?

The most recent title added to my like-to-read list, that isn't available as an eBook at any price, is published by an imprint of the supposed paragon of innovative publishing, Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Martial-Bliss-...=Martial+Bliss

Umm...createspace isn't actually an "imprint" of Amazon any more than Kindle Direct Publishing is. Createspace is a print on demand service for self publishers.

Here is a small-publisher title my wife Barbara (and maybe me as well) would like to e-Read, but can't, because, unlike virtually all big-five titles, it's paper-only:

http://www.amazon.com/Pioneer-Girl-L...ioneer+girl%5D

I would love to read that, too. I've contacted the publisher and requested that it be made available in a digital version.

Upon doing more research into the book, I found this from the publisher:

Originally Posted by South Dakota Historical Society Press:

Will there be an eBook version of Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography?

Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography is a complex book, filled with annotations, appendices, images, and Wilder’s original text, and the development of a faithful eBook version compatible with the most popular eBook devices will be a complicated process. The South Dakota Historical Society Press has not yet set a date for the eventual release of Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography as an eBook.
http://pioneergirlproject.org/order/pioneer-girl-faqs/

For someone who always talks about his love of non-fiction and research based books, I'm surprised that you don't do more research into things that are important to you.

Shari