wake up and smell the reality (Score 1)

What amazon is providing the ability for anyone to get books that non-slashdot readers enjoy reading. Pick up 50 of the best books of this year - doesn't matter which books you like, pick any list you like - and tell me how many of them you can buy in pdf format. Get it? 400$us if buying you the ability to get any newly released book in a portable format. 400$us if buying you amazon's power to get editors to put books in an electronic format. No e-ebook has ever been sucessful because of the lack of contents interesting to most people, not technicalities. I understand /. loves technicalities, but you need to wake up and smell the reality. No one really cares if you can read PDFs on it. People only care if they can get one of NYT's top 10 books to read while they are on the move or on vacation. And if they can do it while they are on vacation - without a freakin' computer - the better. They want to buy a book if they read a bit of it at a store. They want to buy a book if their vacation friend told them how good it was. And now you can, in a portable format. You don't even have to go to a wifi cafe'. You just do it before you pack to beach. Get it?