{"id":35,"date":"2008-08-08T10:55:16","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T10:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitziszereto.wordpress.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2012-04-02T03:17:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T02:17:57","slug":"is-the-print-book-destined-for-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/is-the-print-book-destined-for-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Print Book Destined For Death?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Within the past week I’ve had two people say to me – “but I like REAL books!” They were, of course, unhappily referring to the increasing popularity of electronic readers such as Amazon’s Kindle,<\/a> and therefore the increasing popularity of books you can download and read on said reader. Unfortunately, I\u00a0own no shares in Amazon.com (I wish I’d gone with my gut instinct on this years ago rather than listening to the dotcom doomsdayers, one of which was the investment\u00a0guy who advised me to buy mutual funds whose\u00a0managers are now all\u00a0in jail), but that’s beside the point.\u00a0Granted, in a way I agree – there is nothing like holding a book in your hands; it’s tangible, tactile, it looks\u00a0nifty on a bookshelf, and hell,\u00a0it can even\u00a0make a damned good door-stopper, to say nothing of performing\u00a0other important\u00a0household functions. Why, just the other day while Facebooking<\/a> I\u00a0found myself\u00a0being harassed by a wasp. Needless to say, he meet his fate quickly (and no doubt painlessly)\u00a0at the hands of a novel I’d grown bored of reading.<\/p>\n

So\u00a0why am I jabbering on about Amazon Kindle? Well, for very good reason! My bestselling and now\u00a0out-of-print erotic novel The Captivity of Celia<\/a><\/em> (written as M. S. Valentine) has just been published as a Kindle book. Indeed, thanks to Amazon Kindle it has been brought back to life, and several of my other Valentine titles will be following suit\u00a0via this platform. Is that such a bad thing? Not if it puts a few bob in my pocket! And I’m suddenly hearing from other authors who are feeling quite encouraged about this new opportunity to gain readers and thus earn a bit to put toward the rent.<\/p>\n

Speaking from the rather prejudiced perspective of a writer, the really great thing about the Kindle\u00a0is that the author can publish directly with Amazon, thereby cutting out those annoying little middlemen such as literary agents and book editors and publishers\u00a0who,\u00a0as many of us\u00a0in this business have already learned, know\u00a0as much about publishing good books as your senile old\u00a0Aunt\u00a0Gertrude\u00a0in Hoboken, New Jersey. Hang on a minute – isn’t Gertrude the name of that editor who rejected my last book?<\/p>\n

So\u00a0before we go\u00a0starting up\u00a0a Kindle fatwah, we need to gain some perspective.\u00a0People\u00a0who like print books will always buy print books. The marketplace cannot ignore such a large percentage of readers. However, those who\u00a0prefer the transportability, the varied features,\u00a0and the ability to store a multitude of titles, not to mention being able to bookmark them, will add the Kindle to their reading repetoire. There’s room for\u00a0all of us. Let’s just all\u00a0try to get along, shall we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Within the past week I’ve had two people say to me – “but I like REAL books!” They were, of course, unhappily referring to the increasing popularity of electronic readers such as Amazon’s Kindle, and therefore the increasing popularity of books you can download and read on said reader. Unfortunately, I\u00a0own no shares in Amazon.com […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1782,1781],"tags":[17,18,19,33,69,134,139,1332,148,1727,1333,1728,1692,155,1725,1230,172,244,245,277,292,579,716,717,338,1726,346,365,429,1695],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artsandentertainment-2","category-writingandpublishing","tag-amazon","tag-amazon-kindle","tag-amazoncom","tag-authors","tag-books","tag-downloading-books","tag-e-books","tag-ebooks","tag-electronic-books","tag-electronic-reader","tag-electronicbooks","tag-electronicreader","tag-erotic-books","tag-erotic-novels","tag-eroticbooks","tag-eroticnovels","tag-facebooking","tag-kindle","tag-kindle-books","tag-m-s-valentine","tag-mitzi-szereto","tag-mitzi-tv","tag-mitziszereto","tag-mitzitv","tag-print-books","tag-printbooks","tag-publishing","tag-royalties","tag-the-captivity-of-celia","tag-thecaptivityofcelia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6935,"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/6935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitziszereto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}