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Originally Posted by moonshot
It's easy for any budding author to publish their writing to Amazon or Kobo in the form of an eBook.
But, how do we determine what is a 'proper book' by a professional author?
I asked a question about a recommendation for books in the first person and quite a few replies were from eBook authors suggesting I look at their books.
To me unless an author has had their book published in hardback they are not authors, they are people who have written a book.
Am I being fair?
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You can define it any way you like for you. Nothing wrong with that. You can choose books by any criteria, including hardback published only.
But we authors get to define ourselves too. I'm an author. I will never have a hardback book and I'm not trying for one. I'm trying for enthusiastic readers in any shape, age, form or format. I don't consider a reader only a reader unless they finished college. I don't even care if you attended primary school. If you generally only read the back of cereal boxes, that's okay with me. You can still be a reader!!!