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Electronic books… get used to them…

Posted on September 13, 2011
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Okay folks, we all love the physical books but face it, for many people electronic books make sense for a variety of reasons.

   -  Price – it’s not as great an advantage as we’d like, because publishers are charging a pretty penny for their “bits and bytes”.    In fact, they are raking it in bigtime because there’s no inventory to stock.   Click…you bought it.  What you get, really, are rights of usage.

-  Weight…  face it, this is HUGE.   If you travel AND read, it’s a no-brainer.   Take along your ipad or kindle, and off you go.

-  No “waste” books, over runs, remainders, old editions to scrap, etc.   On the face of it, seems nice for the environment, but don’t forget the costs of making all those gadgets that get thrown away when the new model comes out.   Old books can be burned for fuel as a last resort.

 

We now have an app for scanning books, to see their value.  On iTunes (click)

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Are you a writer ? resources, links

Posted on August 7, 2011
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Here are some links to interesting companies and information about eBooks, digital publishing, and print publishing

Keep coming back, we’ll be expanding this into a large section.    Join the conversation.

Ebook resources.

Overdrive — intro to digital distribution

Byook    a new reading experience..    ebooks with video and sound.

www.bookrix.com    Free the author in you..  a place for writers and readers.  

Kindle direct publishing, with Amazon    publish yourself directly.

Audio books… Audible.com

Read and Note     next generation e-reading platform 

 

 

 

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