So the Nook (not the Kindle) sounded like a really good idea - for kids at any rate. I asked my daughter Lily (aged 10) about it and she's mulling it over. She and I went out a couple of days ago to a secondhand bookstore and a children's bookstore (new books) and she bought a whole stack of real hardback and paperback books with her birthday money. I idly wondered at the time whether some of these might be available as ebooks.
-IainB
My daughter is 10 also, and the books that she was anticipating are all on the Nook Color. One of the things that I still don't like about ebooks is the fact that you can't get them used. I'd understand it to a certain extent if they cost less than dead tree pubs, but they
don't, so they really need to put a way in to transfer DRM. They won't, of course- they don't like the used book market either. Another thing I very much don't like now with the way that the book market has shaken out is that eBooks are never on sale anymore. I built up my considerable collection at fictionwise.com with their sales and their book club. I miss that.
On another topic, as I said above, I like this topic (Amazon and publishers) and I like the ebook topic in general. However, this particular topic is so fragmented that when it comes up in your unread topics, you don't know what to expect, and the conversations are very interweaved and especially later if someone peruses it or tries to find something, there really won't be a good way. Is it possible to separate these into topics in the future, or just make it obvious that this is a mish mash of information?
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