Creating an eBook that looks good on the current cohort of popular devices and platforms isn’t trivial. So there’s a cost to production (and a temporal aspect

Creating an eBook that looks good on the current cohort of popular devices and platforms isn’t trivial. So there’s a cost to production (and a temporal aspect to shifting standards) There are non-trivial implications associating a digital resource with the dynamics of physical ownership. What happens when you sell or give away the physical book? What happens when a library lends out the book? Answers can be contrived but the concerns sufficiently inhibit wide adoptions of this pattern.