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The more I think about it, the less I worry about authors without devices. I don't particularly like people who just sign up to push their book - though if they do it in the right forum it's not going to bother me. Still, that's more about the community than anything else.
The reason I don't care otherwise is simple: novels are not fundamentally different as eBooks than they are in dead tree format. I've read the same book in both electronic and print formats more than once, and it's always been the same book both times.
Many of these writers are choosing eBooks simply because they want to make their books available to readers - and that's the only way they can do it. They aren't concerned about electrons versus paper, they're concerned about getting words before eyeballs by any means necessary.
My eighty-one year old mother doesn't read eBooks - but she does recommend books she's read in print to me, that I later read in electronic form. If an author promotes a good book, I'll be interested because it's good - not because I care whether the author reads fiction off a screen or a page.
It's the story that matters.
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