ebooks

I posted to a writing group recently about ebooks, trying to clarify my thoughts on the subject. In the near future I hope to enlarge upon them, but at the moment you can find them on my website:
ebooks vs paper books - why ebooks are more promising than paper books. It also briefly mentions some problems with locked ebooks.
ebooks and making a living - again, too brief, but mentions making an income from ebooks.

I posted another more full piece about some of the surprising drawbacks of locked ebooks. They are an even worse idea than I'd intuitively felt. I'm not at home at the moment (I'm posting this from my Mum & Dad's place) so don't have access to my normal upload tools. Hence, for the time being I've put it behind a cut tag, below. I think it is the better of the 3 pieces. In it I go into more detail regarding the actual details of making a living from open ebooks, though it is still too brief and I need to think much more about it:

( ebooks - locked or open? )