Okay folks, we all love the physical books but face it, for many people electronic books make sense for a variety of reasons.
- Price – it’s not as great an advantage as we’d like, because publishers are charging a pretty penny for their “bits and bytes”. In fact, they are raking it in bigtime because there’s no inventory to stock. Click…you bought it. What you get, really, are rights of usage.
- Weight… face it, this is HUGE. If you travel AND read, it’s a no-brainer. Take along your ipad or kindle, and off you go.
- No “waste” books, over runs, remainders, old editions to scrap, etc. On the face of it, seems nice for the environment, but don’t forget the costs of making all those gadgets that get thrown away when the new model comes out. Old books can be burned for fuel as a last resort.
