Are you reading e-books these days? On a Kindle perhaps, or on an iPad, a Nook, or even on your computer?
There’s an opportunity to offer my novels as e-books on Amazon, for their Kindle reader. Would that be worthwhile? Would you, my good friends, prefer to read a western mystery on a screen?
My fellow authors, in Georgia and in the Southwest, are you offering your works electronically? Thinking about doing so?
I’ve had a Kindle for about two years now, one of the original ones. It was useful on long trips – no need to pack along a bunch of paperbacks, and I could download a book over the web, anyplace I went. Even on an airplane.
Recently I bought an Apple iPad and I prefer it to the Kindle. It’s bigger, easier to use, and has a color screen. I just read the newest John LeCarre, “Our Kind of Traitor” (about $10). Re-read “Treasure Island” (free). A comfortable experience.
I installed a Kindle “app” on my iPad, so I can read Amazon’s e-books. Amazon has a much larger selection than Apple does. The Kindle app works well on the iPad. Kindle books you buy are stored forever by Amazon. The Apple downloads can be stored on your computer.
I've yet to explore the storehouse of electronic books and documents elsewhere on the web.
Have we finally reached that watershed, where downloaded e-books will begin to replace paper? Will my future reference library of Texas history be stored electronically, someplace in the clouds of the e-world?
Should I offer my westerns on Kindle? Royalties aren’t bad, and there’s no expense to me other than the set-up. Would my e-novels compete with my paper ones?
Are you reading e-books?
Dac Crossley
10/28/2010
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – St. Augustine