Kindle e-books Outselling Paperbacks

[RoJoHen]

It'll never be a completely digital society. As much as I love my Kindle, my bookshelves are pretty well-stocked. I bought some paperbacks just a few days ago.

Indeed. I bought a Nook two weeks ago and the very next day went to Borders and bought a paperback. I like having both options.

I really wish my Nook had a scanner so I could just scan all my existing paperbacks and have them automatically downloaded into the Nook. I mean, I already own them!

 

[Dusty Ayres]

Considering how small my living space is, and how many books I have already, maybe that's not such a bad thing.

Maybe one of the books you should consider for your ereader is a little gem called Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Thanks, but I've read that book more than a couple of times; I'm talking about other books.

BTW, here's my list of recent reading (all paper):

*Dune: House Harkonnen

*God Is Not Great

*Superman: Earth One

*The Adventures Of Martha Washington in the 21st Century

*For The Love Of A Child (the sequel to Not Without My Daughter)

Boy did Vonnie ever hit that nail on the head.

'Vonnie' didn't hit shit. The e-book readers are just another way to enjoy reading, that's all, and they are no different than reading something bought online or edited to be online (like Project Gutenberg.) Personally, I don't know if I'll be getting one-I may think about getting one (maybe to enjoy comic books.) But I will still buy paper books until I do.

 

[CorporalClegg]

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Oh, I was referring to the would-be pitfalls of a completely digital society. I actually figured you've read it. I doubt there are many 'round here who haven't.

 

[Kemaiku]

It'll never be a completely digital society. As much as I love my Kindle, my bookshelves are pretty well-stocked. I bought some paperbacks just a few days ago.

Same here. By the end of this year my collection will likely be half paper, half digital.

 

[OmahaStar]

Considering how small my living space is, and how many books I have already, maybe that's not such a bad thing.

Maybe one of the books you should consider for your ereader is a little gem called Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Or Farenheit 451

Clegg may have been referring to an incident a year or two ago ... Amazon was selling copies of 1984. Unfortunately, they didn't have the rights to do so. With no notice, they reached in and deleted every copy people had purchased (yes, they have the ability to do this), and credited people the three or four dollars they had paid for the ebook. The media caught wind of this, and it became a pretty big disaster for Amazon, who have since "promised never to do this again."

Google "amazon 1984 incident" and you'll see plenty of articles about it.

 

[Professor Zoom]

Maybe one of the books you should consider for your ereader is a little gem called Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Or Farenheit 451

Clegg may have been referring to an incident a year or two ago ... Amazon was selling copies of 1984. Unfortunately, they didn't have the rights to do so. With no notice, they reached in and deleted every copy people had purchased (yes, they have the ability to do this), and credited people the three or four dollars they had paid for the ebook. The media caught wind of this, and it became a pretty big disaster for Amazon, who have since "promised never to do this again."

Google "amazon 1984 incident" and you'll see plenty of articles about it.

Yeah, that wasn't such a good moment for them.

I hope they do a better job of checking to see which books they have a right to sell digitally.

I'm a big fan of my e-book. There are some great websites out there with free books--the ones out of copyright, or hell, even publishers offering some for free, like the Honor Harrington books.

I'll never stop buying paper, but, I do think digital is an opportunity to rediscover some hidden gems.

I love me Project Guttenberg.

 

[Dusty Ayres]

Maybe one of the books you should consider for your ereader is a little gem called Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Or Farenheit 451

Clegg may have been referring to an incident a year or two ago ... Amazon was selling copies of 1984. Unfortunately, they didn't have the rights to do so. With no notice, they reached in and deleted every copy people had purchased (yes, they have the ability to do this), and credited people the three or four dollars they had paid for the ebook. The media caught wind of this, and it became a pretty big disaster for Amazon, who have since "promised never to do this again."

Google "amazon 1984 incident" and you'll see plenty of articles about it.

I read about the incident, and I understand what happened. While that was an unfortunate incident, and very careless on the part of Amazon, that does not mean e-books are tools of the devil and that anybody that uses them will burn in hell (although that does not excuse the actions of Toronto's fat, corpulent pusbag of a mayor trying to shut down a reference library, nor does it excuse the comments about closing down all libraries and replacing them with e-book readers made by a brainwashed supported of said mayor.) Both kinds of reading can co-exist in tandem with each other, so long as people do not get hung up on how 'better' each is, and understand the limitations and benefits of both.