Academic eBooks

I have bought two academic titles from separate eBook sellers, and feel obliged to share the different sources of academic eBook titles I have found after several hours of press release grinding, link hunting and general coffee-drinking.

Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis has quite a healthy supply of books on the Computing & Information Technology section. The formats are Mobipocket, PDF and Microsoft Reader, the prices on the CS books are a bit high.

Cambridge University Press
Cambrigde eBooks has a healthy supply of books on Mathematics and Computer Science, however, I must regrettably say that as far as I have seen, all books are published as PDF's. Prices are good (low), alas, let us hope they start selling the books as Mobipockets.

Springer Link
Every well educated computer scientist ought to have a springerlink book in their library :), if you want one in your eBook reader, this is your source. Downside is: price is high, and the format is PDF.

I only found these interesting enough, there are floods of academic university libraries out there, but they don't let you buy the books. I am hopefull that more will come, to enrich the bookreaders :)

/Gf

Academic eBooks

Having been the owner of the Cybook Gen 3 for some days, I have fallen completely in love with the ease of buying an eBook. Books not available in my city, which could have taken 2-3 weeks from the time of ordering, are at my finger tops just within minutes!

All kinds of books are available in the Gen 3 supported formats, novels, science fiction, love, etc. However, the category (no pun intended) of books that I seek, stay unseen. I am talking about academic books, books on Category Theory, Support Vector Machines, and other parts of Computer Science. Searching the net desperately, I found some eBooks on Finite Automata and Cellular Automata. However, other sciences seem to be over represented in the set of eBooks.

By a sheer coincidence, I found Taylor & Francis, an eBook store specializing in Academia. Here, I also observed that Computer Science is gravely under-represented. In total, the catalogue of academic titles is quite thin and should be expanded.

I will try to contact some of the publishers and ask them if it's possible to buy their books in Secure Mobipocket format.

Conclusively:
There are far too few academic titles available in eBook format, more should be added, given that academic books tend to range 400 - 900 pages, it would be a considerable improvement in terms of sustainability to keep these pages digital.

/Gf