/tags/coding-horror/ Recent content in Coding Horror on Chatswood Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/2012/04/books-bits-vs.-atoms/ Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 /posts/2012/04/books-bits-vs.-atoms/ Jeff Atwood recently wrote a fantastic piece on the current standard of eBooks: Because I love words, I want to love eBooks. I want to buy lots and lots of eBooks. But unless the publishers are willing to treat eBooks with the same respect and care that they give to their printed books – and most importantly of all, adjust their pricing to reflect the brave new economy of bits, and not an antiquated economy of atoms – they’re destined to eventually suffer the same fate as the Encyclopedia Britannica.