But if you spend a lot of time reading books, I still think e-ink readers do that job better than anything else (even
better than physical books, if you ask me).
Add in reading lights so that they aren't dependent on natural light (we do want to do
better than physical books).
So while the current readers are not perfect, they are
better than physical books.
It's much
better than a physical book, because obviously if you put your physical book in a Ziploc bag you can't turn the pages.
And there's a social layer that forms around this, another timeline of reading reviews and discussing with friends, that the ebook could actually exploit
better than the physical book, if we work on it some more.
Not exact matches
In his
book «Hollywood Corral,» author Don Miller wrote that «the strength of the O'Briens rested in their ability to be appreciably
better than most other company Westerns, with a continuance of strong casting, plus a solid
physical look, workmanlike screenplays and direction and..
But I don't really think a
physical book store can really do
better than people that actually know you.
As for
physical books, I believe they will remain but I believe that self - publishing will make the route to a
best - seller more circuitous
than it's ever been because there may not be agents / publishers willing to represent / publish an author unless the self - published product has sold more
than «x» number of
books.
In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, HarperCollins senior vice president Frank Albanese said «What we're seeing now is that if a
book gets a
good review, it gets a faster lift on the digital side
than it does on the
physical side because people who have e-readers can buy and read it immediately.»
Here in Australia paying the prices the publishers are currently charging is often still on par or
better than what I'd be paying for a new
physical book.
Thinking about this question in the context of the
book, I think Margie was handling loneliness
better than the «spell» of
physical attraction with the wrong man.
If he did (and had a
better memory
than I), he would recall my entry from last January 5th where I discussed Amazon's silly press statement: «On Christmas Day, for the first time ever, customers purchased more Kindle
books than physical books.»
For example, promotions on children's
books do not perform
well (the ROI was -39 %), probably because most parents (like me) buy
physical books rather
than e-
books.
The waiting thing sounds
well and
good but if they're going to go from 14.99 down to the 9.99 they are now, I could just go on half.com or ebay or anywhere that sells used
books (or the library, I know, a crazy idea) and get the
physical copy for less
than it would be on my kindle now.
I like
physical books a lot more
than ebooks (I don't have a tablet or ereader so the
best I can do is a laptop, which is shit compared to paper
books) so pirating ebooks would only cheapen my reading experience, excuse the pun.
Amazon's
best - selling
physical or print
books in March, as reported by Thinknum, had greater diversity
than the ebooks.
More
than two dozen
well - written four and five star reviews were removed from my Kindle and
physical books in one fell swoop in mid-June.
Of course, buying
physical books is still the
best option for many bookworms out there, in part because nothing can replace the sheer tactical feeling of flipping through pages, but jumping into e-
books is more
than decent a recourse.
A self - described «emotional science project,» Bernadette Mayer's Memory — 1,100 - odd photographs made by shooting a thirty - six - exposure roll of 35 - mm color slide film on each of the thirty - one days of July 1971, accompanied by six - plus hours of diaristic narration that the artist later revised into a
book — is one of those conceptual pieces from the 1960s and»70s that have been
better known as anecdote
than as
physical fact.