The Need for Ebooks

[bellajavier]

I was reading an article by Mitchell Stephens and she talked about how People don't read a lot. As a new generation person, I'd have to be honest that I am not a big fan of carrying book around, BUT I love reading. Do you think more and more authors should Digitize themselves?

[NetMassimo]

With portable devices becoming increasingly common, the market for ebooks will keep on growing for a long time, so today I don't see the point of publishing books in paper-version only.

[bellajavier]

With portable devices becoming increasingly common, the market for ebooks will keep on growing for a long time, so today I don't see the point of publishing books in paper-version only.

I know right!

[Lee-Ann20]

Not sure how many people know about this, but Macmillan, one of the big 5 publishers for ebooks is embargoing ebooks and e-audiobooks for libraries. In my state, Rhode Island, we are boycotting Macmillan digital services. You can read more about it here
http://cranstononline.com/stories/libra ... U.facebook

[bellajavier]

Not sure how many people know about this, but Macmillan, one of the big 5 publishers for ebooks is embargoing ebooks and e-audiobooks for libraries. In my state, Rhode Island, we are boycotting Macmillan digital services. You can read more about it here
http://cranstononline.com/stories/libra ... U.facebook

... Oh wow this is interesting. Thanks for enlightening me

[Tavaiel26]

With portable devices becoming increasingly common, the market for ebooks will keep on growing for a long time, so today I don't see the point of publishing books in paper-version only.

That's my perspective, too. Ebook is both convenient and green, and there must be a way to pass to a production-on-demand model for paper books, which also would be convenient and green.

[bellajavier]

With portable devices becoming increasingly common, the market for ebooks will keep on growing for a long time, so today I don't see the point of publishing books in paper-version only.

That's my perspective, too. Ebook is both convenient and green, and there must be a way to pass to a production-on-demand model for paper books, which also would be convenient and green.

Interesting

[aruntr2001]

With the e-book readers becoming increasingly common, the market for ebooks will keep increasing. It also provides a window of opportunity to sell more copies of the books and also reduce the price of the books.

[Fatima Saif]

I was reading an article by Mitchell Stephens and she talked about how People don't read a lot. As a new generation person, I'd have to be honest that I am not a big fan of carrying book around, BUT I love reading. Do you think more and more authors should Digitize themselves?

Yeah, this world is a digital world. Whether you like to carry book around or not, ebooks are necessity of time due to portability. You can carry thousands of books in your phone, laptop etc but you can't wander while carrying so much books conveniently.

[readsbyarun]

The portable e book devices have become very handy and it is easy to carry the multiple books at a same time without the need for a storage space or difficulty in carrying the heaviers books.