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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
The title is a pretty innocuous phrasing of a potentially great big bombshell. Quoting NYTimes:
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It would be great to be able to buy Mobipocket ebooks from Amazon. It would be even better without DRM, but I suppose that's not going to happen soon.
I was amused by a comment towards the end:
'Evan Schnittman, vice president for global business development at Oxford University Press [said] “[...] The pages of a book are the size they are because of hundreds of years of experience of what works best.” '
No, the pages of a book are the size they are because that's what's best for creating a bound book that's not impossibly thick or too big to hold. It's not necessarily the best size for reading. Ebook readers eliminate the problems of bulk, and I don't know of any research on what the optimal page size is for reading. For eInk screens, the slow page refresh is a problem with very small (PDA size) pages, but with an instant page turn I was happy with an LCD PDA screen. Indeed, I tended to view using the larger end of the font size range - fitting lots of words on the screen was unimportant, since the flip from page to page was instant.