Update: It's also hasn't been submitted for Amazon Search Inside scanning or Google Book Search. If authors retain their digital rights, they can submit to both (plus Kindle) services quite easily from a variety of source formats -- circumventing ancient publisher pipelines. Alas.
> I wouldn't consider buying this without a Kindle option.
I completely don't grok how you could use delivery mechanism as the sole criteria for passing up on knowledge. It's a book for crying out loud, not some giant machine that takes up half a room.
EDIT: bad assumption, consider the above more a reply to GP than parent. That said I am always bemused by disdain for physical books. If you worry about bulk you can always read it then resell it or give it away. For books deemed worthy, the knowledge gained is well worth the sticker price even if you don't end up keeping it.
Coders At Work barely appeals to me. If I could easily get it, I would think about it, since there's no risk to Kindle purchases. On the other hand: In my room right now I have a total of five books, which have been carefully selected as the only books I felt were worth bringing with me, so that when I move out I don't need to worry about having lost a thing. Coders At Work doesn't deserve to be mentioned alongside those five books, and it will not have a place in my room unless it's digitized and e-paper'd.
Then on the Kindle I have all the Asimov, medium-length novels, nonfiction, kid's books, essays, etc. It's a dream set-up and it all fits in a backpack.
Nah, not really. That's mental. Reading in your car is dangerous.
My understanding is this is a common reaction. Also note related death of reading, death of concentration memes/psychology.