E-books should cost much less than print books with their manufacturing over-head. A $3 difference is hardly any difference at all! I expect that an e-book price sits under half the print cost of that same book. Even better, I expect it to be even lower than that. I enjoy my computer and my kindle and my droid phone. There is very much to recommend them and someday I would like a nice ipad or tablet, but not quite yet. Meanwhile, I struggle with the entire idea of books in digital format where a computer crash might cause them to … Continue reading
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This is the end of an era. The LAST print edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica has been made and when the stock runs out, there will be no more print editions. I feel like crying because my grandchildren may never know the joy of paging through a huge encyclopaedia, looking up a topic for school, but browsing as you went along, reading articles on many many interesting topics on your way to the one article you needed for that report. I feel so sad because the tactile joy of handling a well bound volume is vanishing from the landscape. My … Continue reading