Where can I buy ebooks? Help!

[Ramses II CP]

Well, from a quick poke around it looks like Penguin is getting ready to make a big push in the UK ebooks genre:

http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/cs/u...uin/index.html

I didn't see too much of interest listed there (And the prices! You're getting gouged over there), but Penguin has a decent back catalog if a glance through my shelves has anything to say about it.

I don't quite understand why a book in English isn't just a %&$^ing book in English. What's the purpose in breaking up the market and making it harder to purchase these? Is this just yet another in the astonishing list of events where the publishing industry as a whole sawed off it's foot while desperately struggling to preserve it's toenail clippings?

[Kekvit Irae]

I don't quite understand why a book in English isn't just a %&$^ing book in English.

It's easier to carry around an iPod with 50 ebooks than it is to lug around 50 real books everywhere you go.

[Ramses II CP]

That's not quite what I meant (I read off my iPhone via Stanza all the time); I don't understand why the publishing industry continues to fragment itself into unsustainable little chunks while bleeding customers. Books, physical or otherwise, are dirt cheap to make and yet the industry only raises prices, only cuts author percentages, and kicks off meaningless ****ing contests between the various markets for no better reason than hoarding their ever diminishing circle of buyers. It doesn't take a genius to see a collapse of epic proportions on the horizon.