It seems I can’t stop thinking about ebooks, so David Allen would say I need to capture it in a trusted system so it’s not stealing all my attention. My system and I are still working on trust issues, so I’ll put it here, with reasonable expectation that I can come back to it if need be. Hopefully that won’t be the case and someone else will point me at the solution.
I’ve been listening to “The Long Tail” from Audible (it’s still the original version, not the Longer version). Based on that book, what I would love to see for my ebook need, is the Rhapsody of ebook’s.
All you can read/take/etc for a monthly subscription. Maybe something like O’Reilly’s Safari but everything is completely portable. There’s a finite shelf span for most technical books, some can barely keep up with the fast paced development of the languages, systems and frameworks they cover. Obviously there are more general technical books that hardly go out of style and those would either be in my permanent rotation or I’d buy individual copies of those somewhere else.
Combine the Rhapsody all you can eat model with beta books/first looks/rough cuts to get the freshest content to the most eager eyes seems like a win-win situation. But I don’t write books, or publish them, or host a millions of mp3 files either.
