Digital Penguin

Immediately when I heard the phrase digital penguins, I thought of the movie Surfs Up. This was basically a movie where a bunch of penguins competed in a surfing competition. Now, I expected to relate this to CG characters in some way, but I quickly found that digital penguin could mean the publishing company Penguin. http://garysmailes.typepad.com/gary_smailes/2008/04/digital-penguin.html was a blog post that was titled, “Digital Penguins and History E-books”. This post begins by simply stating that Penguin is going to start selling e-books (as of April 2008) and pricing them the same as old print books. Books have a wide range of prices, but one has to assume that the digital form of a book would be a much cheaper production. Cnet published an article, http://news.cnet.com/8301-13556_3-10250017-61.html, that says why ebooks aren’t cheaper. They say that many of the costs producing a physical copy are still there in a digital format. Most ebooks happen to be $9.99 and Cnet concluded that this is probably near the ground floor. Ebooks at the very least could be easier to produce but the price isn’t really all that ridiculous. Maybe I’ll buy an ebook now. ..