Melville House Books

An item at Boingboing highlights one of the potential problems of the e-book world — the story of a man who bought a medical e-book “published by Wiley” for $172. “I have one copy on my laptop and a backup on my external harddrive. Last week, I downloaded and installed Adobe Professional (writer 6.0) . . . . Since then, I have not been able to access my ebook — I have tried to get help from our computer staff but they have not been able to help me.”

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.