Adventures in e-Books
But the very same day, on Salon.com, Senior Editor Andrew Leonard observed that his desire for sophisticated book-length analyses of the Middle East, Central Asia, fundamentalist Islam and the growth of terrorism was simply insatiable, and not in the colloquial sense of the phrase. The books simply weren't available to sate his appetite. Not that they had never existed, but that they were out-of-print, on back order or published by tiny presses without the resources for large print runs in the first place. All of a sudden, a man who had ordinarily pooh-poohed e-books ("Personally, I'd much rather read a nicely bound paperback or hardcover book than a few hundred thousand words scrolling across my Palm handheld") found himself declaiming in exasperation, "So where's my e-book?"