[OS X TeX] Why does this hang so = [OT] electronic books

[Victor Ivrii]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:14 AM, William Adams <will.adams at frycomm.com> wrote:


>
> ebooks have been available for decades now (given the topic of the list,
> mentioning the Voyager ebooks intended for the first generation Powerbook
> Mac laptops), and are finally becoming big business.
>
> Delivering technical material, esp. w/ equations is problematic, though
> people are sort of doing it w/ the hardware-agnostic .epub format.


I googled "scientific ebooks" and instantly poped-up

http://ebooks.worldscinet.com/mathematics.shtml

However closer look revealed that prices are comparable with those of
printed books. Either someone getting filthy rich or it is to
subsidize printed books.

 Victor
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