This England Search 1.4 million book titles. Enter book title or author in the box below. Search archive Receive updates Enter your email address to receive regular updates about NS and related events. The CD-Rom books market surely ought to be a vast and rapidly expanding one.
Most electronic books are multimedia productions, with the emphasis on visual effects.
And even where they're not aimed solely at children, they tend to assume a short attention span, a low boredom threshold and a readership satisfied with small and superficial doses of information. Then there are specialist productions, mostly collections of historical documents, old journals, a few dictionaries and reference books. They are a misery to read and, not surprisingly, they're pitched primarily at academic libraries, with prices that reflect the small and semi-captive market. Gibbon's Decline and Fall is on the way. Unlike so much else available in the electronic books field, these are genuinely useful and easy to use.