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Originally Posted by irishjayhawk
Just finished The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I liked it. Some parts were over-the-top dark, but nonetheless I liked the story and characters. There were some heavy exposition passages on the front third that could have been shortened, but the book really picks up two thirds in.
On a related note, this was the first book I read on my nook. Overall, I loved it but I have to put some blame on the publishers: the formatting sucks. Huge gaps delineating pages, apparently, but why? Occasional typos. And with these they want a price increase on Amazon's nice $10 or less price point? Give me a break.
And on THAT note, an interesting article on a point I hadn't considered about ebooks/ereaders.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/books/31covers.html
It's happened to me many times where I buy a book because I've seen someone reading it and the cover intrigued me. |
I didn't read the article, but I assume it's about the social aspect of seeing other people's reading and getting reading choices from that. While I think that will be missed, I think the marketing/viral power of seeing someone with a book power pales in comparison to the potential of meshing of social media with book publishing.
There are already tons of sites like goodreads and such out there. These are all linked into facebook and twitter. As (if) e-readers become more and more widespread and more interactive, I imagine that the e-readers will integrate this technology and allow virtual communities to build up around people reading certain books at that time in their e-readers.