Peachpit and Pearson tech books now available in iBookstore

I was about to buy my first eBook today (an Applecript guide), but I decided to do a quick search on Google first. I saved myself $17 on a $30 purchase. I'd much rather have a paperback book than an electronic copy of the same thing.

I thought for a minute there might be a use for eBooks in my life, but I was wrong.

Not in the UK iBookstore yet. I hope the new riders imprint is included when they are.

Awesome! Tempted to buy iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, even though I already bought the print version.

I like reading technical books with iBooks... the bookmarking, highlighting, notes and search features are extremely helpful.

Now Apress needs to either offer ePub versions of their books through their own site (like O'Reilly does), or start publishing through the iBooks store.

Just checked the canadian iBook store, no luck so far for us north of the boarder. Shame!

I’ve purchased and tried out an intermediate level ebook for Filemaker Pro v. 10. I won’t buy another ever, unless paper is abolished and I have no choice. I’ve found in general that technical books cannot be used to best advantage in electronic format. For one thing, it’s much easier to read diagrams and text together, I’ve found, when they’re in print. The main drawback of print is the lack of auto-search capability - I’ll put up with that and rely on the index and table of contents from now on.