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Originally Posted by mldavis2
There have been some good comments regarding eBooks and the reason pBook stores are on the rocks.
First, every potential author has free or at least cheap access to editing tools.
Second, the internet and attendant media gives any author cheap and easy marketing, though how effective remains to be seen.
Third, there is minimal risk involved since there are no physical costs involved in printing and distribution.
Another point is that eBooks are becoming more acceptable with the increase in choices and proliferation of electronic reading devices.
Add to those the ability to carry hundreds of books in the palm of your hand, and the immediate availability of an instant dictionary, and you have eliminated much of the publishing industry's stranglehold.
Questions of how "green" it is will continue. For every tree we save in paper and every gallon of fuel to transport it, we substitute mountains of electronic obsolescence each time a new reader is released.  |
1. I save old readers if they are functional - my goal is to have a reader every place I used to have books or magazines handy, Other people gift them or sell them.
2. A lot of electronic circuitry contains rare earth elements. It doesn't tend to just sit in a land fill, someone is looking to recycle it.