eBooks and eReaders

Those who are in the know, know I read. I don’t read nearly as much as I would like to, but between juggling my hobbies of guitar playing, blogging, reading and trying to spend time with my beautiful wife (because when my beautiful daughter is awake I probably won’t be doing any of the previously mentioned activities) I do not have enough time to dedicate to one particular hobby for as long of a period of time as I would like. Maybe if I did not need to sleep I could, but until then, I just have to settle for doing them all, just not enough of each.

On my Blog Reader today I found this:

http://www.ebooksjustpublished.com/2008/12/04/the-state-of-ebook-technology-today/

I’m the kind of guy that gets excited for things like this. Progress. I think the author nails it with the idea of fiction books that cost under five dollars and non-fiction for under 25.00. I especially like the non-fiction price. I think if College book stores sold eReaders and all of their books were available for download at 25.00 a pop the amount of sales for both eReaders and eBooks would SKYROCKET. Right through the roof. Could you imagine? You could get an entire semester’s worth of books for the price of ONE average printed college textbook.

But I already wrote about that and the amazing potential of these devices and as easy as it would be to slide back into that and tell you all again that if you don’t support new technology there will be no development of said technology and it will fall to the wayside with the developers thinking there’s no market for it and the market “just waiting for a better version,” I won’t.

I wanted to write and just put this guy’s blog out there because it makes sense. He makes sense. I wanted to spread this around in case any of you are thinking about being authors (and with digital distribution ANYONE can be an author) this is a viable option and if you are looking to see eBooks prices fall or better eReaders to come out, try to buy them (the books or readers).

I wish I could say that I have a Kindle but I don’t. They’re still out of my reach but maybe someday I can take my own advice and get one. Just in case you’re curious, I put that sentence in so no one would comment with something along the lines of “how dare you preach like this when YOU don’t even own one!” I know, OK? But I’m doing the next best thing and reminding people about these great devices and asking you to support them.