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eBook vs. HardcoverWell, it’s finally happened. The tipping point for book sales on Amazon. Here’s a quote from Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon. “Amazon.com customers now purchase more Kindle books than hardcover books–astonishing when you consider that they been selling hardcover books for 15 years, and Kindle books for 33 months.” You can read the entire article here.
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What a strange time we’re writing in! As unsettling as I find the whole movement toward digital publishing, I have to wonder if we’ll be the Jeremiahs future generations will laugh at, saying “why were they so worried about ebooks?”
I encourage every writer I speak with to utilize the digital or eBook platform. To begin with, it’s a green (read: ecological) option and the production costs are thousands of dollars less per title than in print form. If I work with a writer who decides to publish digitally, upon final edit, I can publish and upload their book to a WORLDWIDE audience within 3 hours. I can also promote that book using linked digital platforms. Not to mention, but I will, that I am now able to interject video clips into the digital print platform to enhance the reading experience. Try doing that on page 67 of a print book! If I publish in print, it costs me a minimum of $10,000 per title as opposed to pennies a title using a digital format, and in print I face limitations from distributors and from bookstores who no longer want to take risks on publications that are not listed on the best sellers list. I can’t say enough good things about digital printing. If the only thing holding authors back from publishing in this format are the glory days of holding a book in your hands, then I will remind you of the glory days when we didn’t all carry cell phones and had to find a pay phone to make contact with someone else in the world. Think about your printed book like the payphone you used to have to search for. If the reader doesn’t find your book, then that reader misses reading it. Digitally you can reach readers around the world where they link together; on the internet. By digitally publishing my own book, I have found an audience in countries where I had no idea my book would be so well received. And that reception has translated into sales of both the digital and print editions.
I totally agree with you, Leslie. Change is painful, but we authors must embrace this technology. It’s here to stay.