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Originally Posted by Studio717
I think it's probably more "want to have written a book."
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Yes you're right. In the eyes of society, you're much smarter if you wrote and published something. It's pretty much like having a big car or a nice looking girlfriend...
But I still believe that a whole lot of people ARE right now writing books, and that with no publishing cost at all, e-books will make more original materials available. Even if just a few % of these books that wouldn't be available otherwise is good, and the rest complete crap, it's still a good thing: we'll see more and more e-books and long forgotten formats (like short stories, you can't publish them on a dead tree if you don't have a collection, with a single short story, you can sell it to a magazine and that's it) re-appear.
That's also the reason why I'm working on Feedbooks: to provide an easy way for anyone to publish it on our website and make it available to all the supported readers.
I don't believe that e-book will win the argument against p-book if it doesn't try what you can't do with paper. Anyone could write a novel, make it available as an e-book and talk about it on blogs etc... It won't raise the overall quality up, but we'll see new niches for the book market, and new talented people too.