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     Tems (Tems) Username: Tems Registered: 02-2010 Posted From: 155.130.107.42 |
At least one advantage of the new reading devices is that you can now get affordable editions of limited hardcovers. Through arrangement with Barnes&Noble an ebook version of our 2010 Centipede Press book, collecting all our short story collaborations, is available for 30 days exclusively for the Nook http://tinyurl.com/83yex7j. After the 30 day period it will be released for the Kindle & other reading devices. Unfortunately, the lavish art is exclusive to the Centipede Press edition, but the ebook contains the text for all the stories, at $3.99 for the ebook versus $70 for the hardcover. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
This is the kind of news, along with all the fantastic looking material being released by Ash Tree Press in ebook format, which I fear is going to make me change my mind about my "real book only" policy and try ebooks ...  | ||
| Tems (Tems) Username: Tems Registered: 02-2010 Posted From: 68.164.110.228 |
Oh, I understand. Once I started thinking about space requirements, and budget, ebooks became a lot more attractive to me. I still prefer being published in a printed book, but ebooks are rapidly becoming a secondary outlet for authors, at least partially replacing the paperback reprint. Steve | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
I know, I know, Steve. But I just love real books. Can't help it. But the affordability of ebook versions of otherwise unaffordable books is going to make me give in a buy a kindle soon, I'm sure it is. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.156.210.82 |
Most people who read ebooks also love (and continue to read) real books. And again...for the millionth time. It isn't a case of one or the other. You can use both, you know. | ||
| Tems (Tems) Username: Tems Registered: 02-2010 Posted From: 155.130.107.42 |
>It isn't a case of one or the other. You can use both, you know. Absolutely, and there are some books I buy in both formats, especially if it's a book I'm reading as research--so that I can have one on the shelf at home and one on my ipad--which I take with me practically everywhere. As an author, however, I want a print version first, and the digital after. I'm not sure I'd ever be happy with digital only publication. Nothing particularly rational about that preference--for me it's probably emotional, and generational. |