Fool.com: Death to eBooks?: Too bad. I’ve quite gotten to like them.
“In a surprise move, Barnesandnoble.com … has stopped selling eBooks. The online retailer is in the process of e-mailing its affiliates to let them know of the program’s demise this week.”
Via SlashDot.
Adobe Digital Media Store: Adobe has started selling e-books in order to pump up its PDF format as a viable alternative to formats from Microsoft and Palm. They may be able to fill some of the vacuum left by Barnes and Noble when they left the market.
Prompted by Microsoft's generosity, I've started reading e-books, and I think I'm addicted. I read a book last year called "The Social Life of Information" which put forth all sorts of reasons why e-books weren't going to work. I agreed with it then, but after actually trying it,…