From: mike99 (mike99@lascruces.com)
Date: Sun May 19 2002 - 21:24:03 MDT
Damien Broderick wrote:
>I see that Fictionwise.com now sells TRANSCENSION, in a dinky downloadable
>version
>
>AVAILABLE ONLY IN SECURE
>MOBIPOCKET FORMAT ,
>
>listed on my page at
http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/DamienBroderickeBooks.htm
>
>The price--$23.36--is nearly as great as the hardcover paper edition.
>Insane--when will publishers learn that e-readers aren't idiots? Especially
>ludicrous when THE DREAMING is there for $6.49...
How true. I buy lots of short fiction from fictionwise.com but I cannot
imagine reading a novel on my PDA...or paying their asking price for new
novels either! I bought my hard copy of TRANSCENSION from Amazon and enjoyed
the book in the conventional manner: reading it at my favorite coffee shop,
or on my couch, or in bed.
Paper books are still an excellent technology.
Michael LaTorra
mike99@lascruces.com
mlatorra@nmsu.edu
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