Another aspect that should be taken into account is the number of ebook readers out there. Kindle sold from 1.49 to 3 million units (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle#Kindle_sales). So the market of potential buyers of ebooks is quite smaller than that of printed books.
"I realized at that point that there was a huge ecological niche between the C language and Unix shells. C was good for manipulating complex things - you can call it 'manipulexity.' And the shells were good at whipping up things - what I call 'whipupitude.' But there was this big blank area where neither C nor shell were good, and that's where I aimed Perl."
-- Larry Wall, author of Perl
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As English is not my native language, may I correct you English? :-)
It must be an utopia!
Another aspect that should be taken into account is the number of ebook readers out there. Kindle sold from 1.49 to 3 million units (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Kindle#Kindle_sales). So the market of potential buyers of ebooks is quite smaller than that of printed books.
Are you telling me they needed hundreds of thousands of computers to find a watch? Geez...those astronomers are really airheaded.
How about a link to the campaign in this article? Since ScuttleMonkey didn't put it, here it is: http://www.hmnl.nl/HMNL/web.nsf/vwWebFeatures/CODMain
In C# there's: Threading in C#. It's nice to read and has nice code samples to explain the topics. Oh...and the price is also nice!
-- Larry Wall, author of Perl
I rest my case.
...this isn't that dificult, this isn't like rocket science! ...Oh!
Wait!
It is!
Damn you von Braun!