Last time that I worked in the film industry it was the year of the zombie films. Well apparently the
I want to like my Sony e-reader.
Lots of people got Kindles and Nooks and e-readers over Christmas this year. These lucky people also apparently decided it was too snowy to go out shopping between Christmas and New Year's, because instead they stayed home and purchased record numbers of e-books.
While I've trashed the Sony E-reader a couple of times when comparing to the Kindle, a whole new world just opened up for the little device: Google has launched their new Google ebookstore.
Deadlines are hell. Anyone knows that, but self-imposed deadlines are the worst because there's no one standing over you with a whip.
Amazon and Sony have crossed the line from e-book stores to publishers, although they're using a very old method to recruit want-to-be-authors: self-publishers, also known as vanity presses.
Not everyone who reads books keeps them. Those of us who do line our walls with books do so because we love books. We like looking at them; we like holding them. Some of us even enjoy dusting them.
For those of you who have a life and don't have time for the article: the salient prediction is that Amazon and the Kindle will move from 50% e-book market share to 90% market share.
"The e-book sales are astonishing," says Grisham. "Would anybody have thought that a year ago? The future has arrived, and we're looking at it."
The Crime Writers of Canada asked me for an article on e-books for their newsletter. The article I wrote above turned out to be very similar to one they'd published last month. Who knew? I'm not the first person to see this coming.