Chris Turkel <zizban at adelphia.net> writes: > I actually dislike ebooks myself, I really dislike reading on a > screen. I'd rather hold a book, which would have clearer type, then > stare a screen, but that might be just me. Then I think we can say you're not part of the target market :-). I find the current Palm Pilot screens marginal for reading. I've read 5 novels on my Palm so far, I think, and another three or something on my big monitors. However, being able to carry three books for no additional weight (I'd have the palm with me for other reasons) is very useful. And while the Palm formats aren't ideal, I really like the utilities I can apply to ebooks (you can't grep dead trees). I won't venture to predict how the actual market goes, since it depends on everything from technological change to marketing to legal decisions. I'd *like* to get more things in ebook format, especially with improved readers (and I'm sure the Palm will continue to improve rapidly). I won't touch proprietary locked formats, though. It can also cause a real upset in the distribution chain, potentially, reducing prices to customers while increasing payments to authors, say. But remember that the vast majority of people read very few books, and wouldn't buy a special device to read them on. Luckily the penetration of the Palm device is going well enough that there's a market of people who already have the reader for other reasons. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing list, see http://dragaera.info