O’Reilly and Microsoft Press have recently switched to using eBooks as the preferred media for distributing review copies. Like all book reviewers, I receive more books than I actually review. However, since I live in Hawaii, the physical and energy waste of a book that goes unread and for which its difficult to find a home (no colleges on my side of the island) is apparent.
I hope other publishers follow in their footsteps and switch to eBooks (preferably not non-reflowable PDF!) as the default format for reviewers.
(For what it’s worth, I think the tone of my column may be a little more negative that I intended. I tried to be balanced pro and con, but perhaps I over-emphasized the problems.)
Views presented here are my own. I'm very often wrong, stupid, and say things that, in retrospect, embarrass and humiliate me. Just the way it is, I suppose.
In particular, views represented here do not necessarily represent the views of Gemini Observatory or any of its governing bodies or affiliates.
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