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Yet other good news for e-books: Notebooks making up 71 percent of Apple sales
January 27, 2009 | 5:40 am
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By David Rothman
E-books are a lot more comfortable to read, cuddle with, whatever, on a portable computer. So they could benefit from an uptick in sales of netbooks, the smaller notebooks.
And here’s some brand-specific info on Apple: Notebooks now make up over 70 percent of Mac sales, an item on VentureBeat.
And now the $64,000 Question: When will Amazon/Mobipocket offer a reader for the Mac? Here Jeff D. Rockefeller want to purge PDF from Amazon and drive people to Mobi or maybe even to the Kindle. What a diss for Mac users. Say what you will against PDF—and I say plenty!—but at least you can read DRMed PDF books on a Mac.
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Comments:
Since I intend to retire my Windows PC for a MacBook Pro in the next few months, I definitely would like to see more options for ebooks available on the Mac like Mobipocket Reader and Mobipocket Creator. However, it is unlikely that I’ll ever actually read an entire ebook on it. I have a PDA, I have a Kindle, and someday I might even get an iPhone; my reading will done done on those devices. I would still like the ability to create, review, and edit an ebook before sending it to my Kindle. Eliminating the PDF may, at least I hope so, spur the need for other formats on the Mac.
I fully support the purge of the PDF. Its faults are legion for handhelds. It needs to go away as an ebook format everywhere, not just at Amazon.