Have you noticed the amount of ebooks now available for us to purchase today. They are so prevalent. There are so many authors going the indie route as they have more control over how their book is published, or for that matter, getting it published at all.
Twenty years ago, if you wanted to see your book in print, you had to go to one of the big New York publishers and hope, that by some small miracle, they’d publish your book. Today you can go to a place like CreateSpace and publish your book for next to nothing. Vanity presses are okay but it will cost you a hefty price most of the time to get it done. Either way, getting your book published today is now a reality for so many where they may never have been before. Even those who have been published traditionally before have started to go indie as they have more control over their own manuscript and they also then retain the rights to their book.
Another great advantage from a reader standpoint are the amount of books you can download either for free (which I have a ton I’ve downloaded and love) or relatively inexpensive.
Ebooks are the way of the future. Will books in print ever fully go away? I don’t think so but I know that more and more books are heading toward the ebook route versus print. Personally, I never thought I’d like to read an ebook until one day when I was walking on my treadmill and found how hard it was to read a book while walking. I asked to borrow my husband Kindle Fire and that’s the day I forever fell in love with reading ebooks. How about you? Are you still an avid reader of books in print or do you prefer ebooks?
Kristena, I agree! I’ve always loved print books (still do), but reading ebooks on my iPad gives my poor eyes a rest, as I can enlarge the font. Backlighting helps, too.
As an author, my ebooks have sold – about three times as much as my print books.
Martha, I’m with you. At night I no longer have to keep my lamp on where it would bother my hubby. I turn the brightness all the way down. Plus it’s easier to read with the backlight as well if I want to make the text bigger I have that option which really comes in handy when you walk on a treadmill.
I think that’s amazing how many more ebooks you’ve now sold over print ones. It just seems to be the wave of the future anymore. A guess you could say a new norm.
I’m more into traditional prints, but I do think ebooks come in handy when I want to read while I’m out. Couldn’t be bringing a 400 page book with me. lol.
Suzanne, I used to be that way. But after I started to use it on the treadmill I fell in love with my husband’s Kindle. I’ve kind of taken his. I asked if I could just get my own and he said to use his. And as for 400 page books, yes those are rather big. 🙂