Y\u2019all probably don\u2019t read my blog. I curse muchly and there is \u201csex\u201d in my banner, not to mention a bare nekkid lady.<\/p>\n
Before you read any further (if you are still reading or the least bit interested), please go to these websites and study them. Ignore the content; I want you to see what they\u2019re doing. Then come back. I\u2019ll wait.<\/p>\n
Back? Cool. Now, please go here:<\/p>\n
Did you understand what I wanted you to see? Awesome!<\/p>\n
As a consumer of e-books, I would like to offer you a friendly suggestion, which is to embrace the digital distribution of your titles. The e-book publishers I linked are making money hand over fist. The devices I linked are the way people read e-books. This will grow.<\/p>\n
You probably don\u2019t understand the seduction of having an entire library in your palm, and that\u2019s okay. There are lots and lots of people who say they won\u2019t give up print for anything, and then they get to live with an e-book reader for maybe two or three days, and they\u2019re hooked.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s also something very seductive about being able to log onto an e-bookstore and download a bunch of books onto your device immediately. No driving. It\u2019s all about impulse. I can talk myself out of an Amazon purchase because it involves shipping time. It leaves the shopping cart and goes into the wish list, never to be seen again. I don\u2019t even want to go to a bookstore anymore.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve now encountered three small LDS presses and individuals somewhere in the LDS publishing arena dismiss e-books as so much of a passing fad, a waste of time or, worse, think that \u201ce-book\u201d is synonymous with \u201cPDF.\u201d I simply have to shake my head at their short-sightedness.<\/p>\n
Be on the cutting edge of the digital age of books. Take a cue from the church\u2019s rabid embrace of the interwebz and streaming audio and its ability to reach its members nearly effortlessly.<\/p>\n
But beyond that, the take-home message here is this: E-bookstores are dangerous to the health of my checkbook.<\/p>\n
Want to know the real reason I don\u2019t buy anything from Deseret Book<\/a>, Zarahemla<\/a>, Signature Books<\/a> et al? No e-books. I want to read your books; really I do, but I\u2019m not going back to paper unless you give me something terribly compelling. I buy e-books on impulse. Impulse<\/em>. Hear that? IMPULSE<\/em>.<\/p>\n Please give me a reason to throw my money at you in the middle of the night when one of your titles catches my eye. Pretty please?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Y\u2019all probably don\u2019t read my blog. I curse muchly and there is \u201csex\u201d in my banner, not to mention a bare nekkid lady. Before you read any further (if you are still reading or the least bit interested), please go to these websites and study them. Ignore the content; I want you to see what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebooks","category-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16922,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/16922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}