Even authors who were once wary of selling their work in bits and bytes are coming around. After some initial hesitation, authors like Danielle Steel and John Grisham are soon expected to add their titles to the e-book catalog, their agents say.
“E-books will become the go-to-first format for an ever-expanding group of readers who are newly discovering how much they enjoy reading books on a screen,” said Markus Dohle, chief executive of Random House, the world’s largest publisher of consumer books.
Nobody knows how much consumer habits will shift. Some of the most committed bibliophiles maintain an almost fetishistic devotion to the physical book. But the technology may have more appeal for particular kinds of people, like those who are the heaviest readers.
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Via Gizmodo Italia La Beta 1 di Windows 7 che era stata preannunciata per metà gennaio, è stata appena rilasciata e potete scaricarla via BitTorrent. La Beta scade l’1 luglio 2009 e da quello che abbiamo letto, è un po’ più stabile della versione con la quale qualcuno aveva potuto giocare finora. Cliccate qui per … Leggi tutto