Saturday, June 14, 2003
Barnes & Noble's Worst Nightmare - Wirelessly Enabled eBook Enthusiasts
Posted by Ed Hansberry in "THOUGHT" @ 07:30 PM
I was in the local Barnes & Noble tonight perusing. I love the atmosphere in there, plus ours has a Starbucks in it and lots of cushy chairs. I picked up Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and started flipping pages and reading the inside cover. Someone walked by and said he'd just finished it and highly recommended it.
I decided to purchase it right then and there. From Palm Digital Media. 8O It took less than 5 minutes to connect to Hotmail, grab this weeks discount code from their weekly emails, connect to their site, search for "Da Vinci" add it to my cart and make the purchase. I downloaded it right there and unzipped it using Resco's File Explorer 2003's built in zip support. Total cost - $10.75 after using the 10% discount code. Barnes & Noble's price was $14.97 for the hardback version, which I had no interest in anyway. Hardbacks are just too large. I'll wait for the paperback any day. Or, I could buy the DRM5 encrypted .LIT from bn.com for $12... Nah. I'll stick with Palm Digital Media's user friendly protection scheme, but that is another rant. :wink:
I am just wondering how many of you have become addicted to reading on your Pocket PC? The ebooks at Palm Digital Media encompass an incredible spectrum. You can get the California Civil Code, Hillary Clinton's new "Living History," just about every Star Trek book written, including many out of paper print, westerns, etc. There are also dozens of other sites to get ebooks from, and yes, there are alternative ways to obtain ebooks too, ways I only resort to after 1) verifying there is no ebook legally available and 2) purchasing the paperback book so the author gets a few pennies out of it.
I asked this question a bit over a year ago and I wanted to see if the trend was the same or if more and more are reading ebooks.
I decided to purchase it right then and there. From Palm Digital Media. 8O It took less than 5 minutes to connect to Hotmail, grab this weeks discount code from their weekly emails, connect to their site, search for "Da Vinci" add it to my cart and make the purchase. I downloaded it right there and unzipped it using Resco's File Explorer 2003's built in zip support. Total cost - $10.75 after using the 10% discount code. Barnes & Noble's price was $14.97 for the hardback version, which I had no interest in anyway. Hardbacks are just too large. I'll wait for the paperback any day. Or, I could buy the DRM5 encrypted .LIT from bn.com for $12... Nah. I'll stick with Palm Digital Media's user friendly protection scheme, but that is another rant. :wink:
I am just wondering how many of you have become addicted to reading on your Pocket PC? The ebooks at Palm Digital Media encompass an incredible spectrum. You can get the California Civil Code, Hillary Clinton's new "Living History," just about every Star Trek book written, including many out of paper print, westerns, etc. There are also dozens of other sites to get ebooks from, and yes, there are alternative ways to obtain ebooks too, ways I only resort to after 1) verifying there is no ebook legally available and 2) purchasing the paperback book so the author gets a few pennies out of it.
I asked this question a bit over a year ago and I wanted to see if the trend was the same or if more and more are reading ebooks.
