e-booking: a summation

Just a rough list of the e-book issues I can think of. And, I should say up top here that I'm completely addicted to my Kindle, will often not read a book if it isn't offered digitally. So this isn't an attack on e-books (which — a lot of of those are taking the form of nostalgia, right? like when we went from cassettes to CDs?). At the same time, I see nothing wrong with the already-proven technology of the paper book. And, yes, a lot of times this pro/con argument, it's eviling up e-books in defense of brick & mortar bookstores, yes? So I discount most of those. I'm all for bookstores as well (though I far prefer/refer the ones that carry my books . . .), but I'm all for the on-line reatailers as well, or direct-purchasing from the press itself (makes them more money). Anyway, enough preamble: How e-books are changing publishing: 'print run' is no longer that useful a term book contracts don't hedge against returns as aggressively 'remainders' and warehousing aren't issues anymore advance reading copies work differently, at least for solely e-titles covers matter less, as most readers start you at page 1 (often even skipping the epigraph and TOC and dedication, which kind of sucks). though, as for the retailers' listings on the digital 'bookshelf,' yes, the cover matters there collectibility and signatures aren't so much an issue marginilia (your own scribbles in the book) are significantly ore difficult, thus, less instinctive footnotes more or less suck, digitially (a  . . . → → →