why you don't read ebooks

Has anyone bought ebooks from a small ebook only press? In other words, one of those presses where many of their books/novellas are only in ebook form. These seem to be gaining some popularity. I find the trend to ebooks very exciting, but currently both technology and publishing habits don't seem to be there yet.

I haven't because most of these presses focus on genres I'm not very interested in, and because no one whose taste I trust/know has really gone to bat for any of these books.

But maybe I'm wrong, and people whom I know (you reading this) do indeed read ebooks which are only published in ebook form. So are you out there? How have your experiences been?

Also, if you do not read ebook-only books, why do you not do so?

a) haven't heard of any that appeal to you
b) are only interested in reading books in hard-copy form
c) object to DRM (if the press uses it)
d) don't have a means of purchasing them online
e) feel they are overpriced

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ontd's brand of fandom

So to cut it all short, ONTD had a drunken, blueberry-infused hookup with Eli Roth in the nightclub restroom which is Myspace (or maybe Twitter?), and now F_w is reading the facebook status where ONTD is bragging about it, and going 'omg ONTD is such a slut!!!'?. Admittedly, not all people on f_w have that reaction, but I'm kind of boggling here. Honestly, the sorts of fandoms that f_w draws its members from are full of things that would be considered much, much worse than what went down in ONTD by mainstream society.

Sometimes, on a meta level I find celeb gossip fandom kind of interesting, ( Read more... )