When you were a kid, or whenever you started dreaming of being a successful novelist, chances are you never dreamt of seeing your work on a mobile phone or tablet screen (probably because neither was around back then).
A print copy you could hold in your hand and get others to hold in their hands was what it was all about. Seeing your name on a glossy dust jacket, your words beautifully typeset on high quality paper. Signing copies at your local bookstore in front of a queue of excited fans that was so long, it snaked through the fiction, non-fiction and travel sections and out of the door.
Surely, that was the stuff of your dreams?
Ebooks are inexpensive, quick and convenient, and better for the forests. But it's seeing our work in hardback and paperback, even if it's through Createspace, that's still the be-all and end-all.
Isn't it?
A print copy you could hold in your hand and get others to hold in their hands was what it was all about. Seeing your name on a glossy dust jacket, your words beautifully typeset on high quality paper. Signing copies at your local bookstore in front of a queue of excited fans that was so long, it snaked through the fiction, non-fiction and travel sections and out of the door.
Surely, that was the stuff of your dreams?
Ebooks are inexpensive, quick and convenient, and better for the forests. But it's seeing our work in hardback and paperback, even if it's through Createspace, that's still the be-all and end-all.
Isn't it?
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