Slashdot: E-books solving a problem consumers don’t have.

The most successful electronic books are published online for free in a standard format like HTML. (That doesn’t mean that they have to be written in HTML; my book is written in XML and transformed into various formats, including HTML.) But open online publishing takes advantage of all the strengths of the Internet:

In other words, electronic books can be more useful than their printed counterparts, be more convenient, and can grant more rights to their readers. However, “E-books” as developed by major publishing companies have none of these benefits.

No wonder people hate them.

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