BSD & Gaming » books http://www.bsdgaming.com technology, gadgets, games, freebsd, and other geek fun Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:24:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Electronic books outselling paper versions http://www.bsdgaming.com/2010/07/electronic-books-outselling-paper-versions/ http://www.bsdgaming.com/2010/07/electronic-books-outselling-paper-versions/#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:47:13 +0000 admin http://www.bsdgaming.com/?p=486 In a New York Times article Amazon.com says it was selling 143 eBooks for every 100 paper copies and now sales are on the increase hitting 180 per 100. I can understand why sales are up from my own perspective. I love to read …and I love books! However years of lugging around tons of books every time I move has been a nightmare, being able to have all those hundreds of pounds of books on a few data disks…. it’s just too convenient.

It’s not an easy choice when you sentimentalize hard-copy books the way some of us do. Some books in my collection were gifts from people and those are especially hard to consider getting rid of. Every book holds a memory for me, not just the work itself…  where I was, what I was doing and experiencing at the time when I read it. That experience doesn’t hold for me with the digital editions. Getting rid of my hard-copy versions is something I’ve been contemplating for some time now but not a choice I’ve been able to make yet.

NYT’s story is here – [LINK]

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