Reading an ebook on a PC is convenient and accessible, particularly if you don't own a mobile device. It's just not very fun.

You can read HotSpot Confidential on a Windows PC via Mobipocket or Adobe Digital Editions

Here's what HotSpot Confidential looks like in the Mobipocket book store, where you can buy it for $1 -- after you've downloaded the software. (It's called "HotSpot Confidential 10" because that's how many versions it's taken me to get to the still flawed the Mobipocket edition).

If you use Adobe Digital Editions, you simply download the HotSpot Confidential: The ePub edition and add it to your "library".

Anyway, what's new and interesting about ebooks is that they are an emerging platform, and a form factor, and a user interface, and a delivery system: a collection of technologies and capabilities that may or may not converge into a new and different way to engage with information and stories.

Reading on a digital device, especially one with Internet connectivity, is also out in the world in a unique and different way -- beyond the relatively mundane ability to read it on a bus or a subway or a park bench.

Even if you're sitting in a comfortable chair at home, six feet from a personal computer, reading on a portable digital device is somehow different.

By contrast, reading an ebook on a Windows PC monitor loses that feeling of convergence. It will work, if you don't have a digital device. But it's kind of like homework. The same old.

But, again, if you want to access that compelling HotSpot Confidential content, and you're mobile device-less, you can now read it through a PC Window.