When they run out of shelf space and have books on every flat surface in the house, they will understand why some of us really love eBooks and Kindles.
Excellent.
I’ve never tried to read an ebook. I just can’t warm to “curling up to a good screen.”
My wife has an older Nook, but it’s dying and she doesn’t really use it much.
But, my daughter manages the children’s department at a Barnes and Noble and my other daughter wants to be a proof-reader, so books tend to be important to us.
the bookseller daughter will be excited. This year, she set a personal goal to sell 100 copies of her favorite kids book and she already hit the goal.
Being that it’s the kids department, she has frequent special events. Last week, the cast of a musical production invaded the store and performed part of their play.
Fun stuff.
The fruits of a weak and failed education system. Thanks to the morons in “education” embracing the globalist “way”. But don’t worry, the kids know what time their favorite cartoon is on and how to put on a rubber.
My agent said about 5 years ago my E book sales were nearly 20% of all sales, but now have dropped to just over 10-—too bad cuz I made about 2-3% more on an e-book.
FAKE NEWS
This report is from the UK, and only from traditional publishers at that. The data is crap. The Guardian (a print paper) is an enemy of those upstart small presses and indies (full disclosure, I’m an indie author) and they want to affect behavior by printing BS article like this one.
They want you to believe ebooks are failing and that younger people are going to put ereaders back in the box where they belong. What they fail to mention is that the market is being crushed by independent authors who are putting the traditional publishers out of business. To compensate, they sell ebooks for stupid high rates FORCING people to buy the print books for almost the same price. They also flood the market with huge print runs of paperbacks, then promote articles like this one to get people to think “well, I guess it’s back to paperbacks for me.”
From time to time you’ll see articles on these FAKE NEWS sites like “boy does it suck to be an indie author” or “If you enjoy being poor, be an independent author.” All of this is designed at the behest of the giant publishers with lots to lose.
The reality, if you look at indies and sites like Amazon which sells the lion’s share of ebooks, is that indie authors continue to take market share from traditional publishers. Sure, we’ll always need a physical printer to spew out our adult coloring books, but I have indie friends designing them. The days of the traditional publisher being able to control the market are long gone.
I doubt if that is true in America.
Our grandkids, grand nieces/nephews prefer Kindle or other ebooks.
One grandkid goes to a private school and she has zero text books. We bought her the biggest and premium Ipad 3 years ago. All of her text books and reading come via her Ipad.
She carries a thin paper notebook and her I Pad instead of a 40-50 pound backpack loaded with text books and note books.
One of her sibs goes to a different private school. That school requires the IMac and paper books. The kid struggles with a huge backpack weighing 40-50 pounds and has had back aches for two years.
My wife is an avid speed reader. She prefers books, and she checks out 5-7 books a week from our local library. She does not want a Kindle. I prefer a Kindle and have fiction, research books to LS’s book and other Trump books on it.
Our siblings and in laws, who read books prefer the Kindle. One SIL and her husband spend a month in Floriduh every year. Instead of a ton of books she uses her Kindle. Her husband is a news junky, and he takes his Amazon Fire 8 tablet to read their local, state and national news while in Floriduh. He uses it for their emails and messages.
Fortunately, we have two books options, paper or electronic.
This article motivated me to look a Amazon Kindles.
They all have approx. 6x4” screens, too small for me to struggle to read text on.
A reading area of 6x8” would be doable for me, but I don’t see one of those.
I’ll stick with dead trees for now.
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The best Android ebook reader is Moon+ Reader Pro.