Seriously?

I'm not going to tell you what book it is because I find the author entertaining and I don't want to embarrass him.  But seriously?  The copy with no production costs at all is only $1.45 less than the one that has to be printed and shipped? 

SOLVED - E-ink ebook frustration

After spending a whole lotta time looking at ebooks (and blabbing about it on the internet) I came up with an elegant and creative solution.

I'm using my Nook again.

I don't actually have that many Amazon ebooks and I can read them on my tablet.  Everything else, hey ho for the Nook. Now I just have to remember to routinely plug it in so I'm not sitting in the barber shop waiting for my appointment and my book says "Insufficient power to turn on".

The best part?  It was free because I already have it.  Sometimes the simple solutions are the best.

I Was Not Aware of That

you may be wondering why there aren’t more eBooks available from the library, why you have to wait for eBooks, or why some bestsellers aren’t available at all? Here are some answers:

Three of the six major publishers (Hatchette, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and all of their imprints) will not sell their eBooks to libraries at all. Another major publisher, HarperCollins requires libraries to re-purchase an ebook after it has circulated 26 times. Penguin gives their eBooks a 1-year license, but will not allow their eBooks to be read on the Kindle platform. Random House (which is merging with Penguin) sells eBooks to libraries at three times the cost to anyone else.

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