Ebook versions of John Dean and Clarke's books

[dsewell]

To avoid making this seem like an advertisement, I'm not going to identify any particular vendors, but I wanted to point out that Dean's Worse than Watergate, like Clarke's Against All Enemies, has been released in e-book format. The online store I usually buy ebooks from is listing it for less than the discounted price for hardbacks at Amazon and Barnes and Noble, and it's even less than that for their newsletter subscribers—plus there's no shipping cost (it's a download, duh) or sales tax to my state anyway.

I'd put in a general pitch for buying ebook versions of current affairs / political titles. The publishers need to be encouraged to release them in this format (ebook lists tend to be heavy on genre fiction). Having a book in digital form means you can quickly search for and retrieve relevant passages to cite to clinch the argument of your latest brilliant blog post. (Yes, I've heard of "indexes" to print books. They're of uneven quality, unfortunately.)

Ebooks aren't just for PDA's; I read them on my Apple iBook, which means that if I want to look up some historical background or context for something I'm reading I just switch over to my Web browser. I prefer ebooks in Adobe or Palm format, since there are free and relatively platform-independent readers for those formats (unlike Microsoft Reader format, which you can only reader under Windows).

[Toucano]

1. Thanks for the tip! n/t