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‘Cyberbooks’ author Ben Bova on the current state of e-books
March 7, 2010 | 12:26 pm
Found via Nate’s Ebook News: Ben Bova, author of the Cyberbooks e-book satire novel (which recently became available as an e-book itself), has an editorial in a local Florida newspaper about the current e-book situation. Given that he was one of the first recent SF writers to consider the idea of e-books seriously, it is interesting to see what he has to say. Bova writes that his premise in Cyberbooks was that “electrons are cheaper than paper.” Ninety percent of a book publisher’s expenses are the cost of hauling paper across the countryside: from...



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