But ebooks don't have that constraint, and a lot of people discover it's easier to read them at larger font sizes.
So true, see my answer to amalthia below. In fact, I only just now thought this may be a reason why so many people seem intrigued by my eReader which is nothing special, probably because they're so unaccustomed to see large font in reading material. That's a useful review of the financial constraints of print though.
You know, the other thing that publishers don't seem to be thinking about is how to translate the hardcover/paperback dichotomy to eBooks (in a way other than price that is). For example, for most of my reading, all I care is that something is readable. But if it's a story I quite like and might want to reread, I'd love to have a visually attractive version, with illustrations, scene break art, etc. (thus why Big Bang works can be so appealing). And to some degree there have been print attempts to do things like this with "collector" editions and expensive binding, etc. But eBooks could also benefit from this, and chances are the books that would sell well with those features would already be top sellers (at least in their genre). Yet other than cramming multimedia into texts (which I would personally find of limited appeal), I don't see that this is any kind of plan on their part.
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So true, see my answer to amalthia below. In fact, I only just now thought this may be a reason why so many people seem intrigued by my eReader which is nothing special, probably because they're so unaccustomed to see large font in reading material. That's a useful review of the financial constraints of print though.
You know, the other thing that publishers don't seem to be thinking about is how to translate the hardcover/paperback dichotomy to eBooks (in a way other than price that is). For example, for most of my reading, all I care is that something is readable. But if it's a story I quite like and might want to reread, I'd love to have a visually attractive version, with illustrations, scene break art, etc. (thus why Big Bang works can be so appealing). And to some degree there have been print attempts to do things like this with "collector" editions and expensive binding, etc. But eBooks could also benefit from this, and chances are the books that would sell well with those features would already be top sellers (at least in their genre). Yet other than cramming multimedia into texts (which I would personally find of limited appeal), I don't see that this is any kind of plan on their part.