Expansion or replacement of the traditional book?
My guess is that most people still value the convenience and sheer pleasure of holding and reading a traditional paper book. It is difficult to think of a more pleasurable activity than browsing the shelves of a book-store or library. But the eBook also is carving out a valuable niche, it appears.
Thus it was a delight to come across a ‘store’ devoted to eBooks. Based in Paris, that virtual store is called Mobipocket. New to me but, perhaps, not to many others (I can sometimes be a little behind the new technology drag-curve!)
Nevertheless, a veritable labyrinth of virtual book shelves with prices often well below print prices. Here’s the WikiPedia background.
By Paul Handover (who has no commercial interest in promoting Mobipocket, not even a cent is earnt if you click through.)
across the road.
has been.
worse (if brain cancer wasn’t bad enough) is a growing view that the cell phone industry may have been trying to skew the results in favour of the industry. If proven, that sort of corporate behaviour underlines the value of integrous living as the only way of creating a society fit for all.
