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E-Books Forever
By Rick | December 28, 2007
With technology ever changing and document formats and storage media evolving in lockstep, is there a concern that e-books will become unreadable in the perhaps not-too-distant future? Does the addition of digital rights management (DRM) impact the expected life of an electronic document?
While we don’t know the answers to those questions with any precision, I’m encouraged to know that you can re-download any items you’ve purchased from Amazon for your Kindle, as well as back-up your annotations and bookmarks on Amazon’s servers. One would expect Amazon to maintain an upgrade path over time as devices, formats and delivery channels evolve. How you view your e-book investment may depend on how you currently use hard-copy books. Do you read them once and pass them on or do you keep them and return to them again and again?
Topics: Technology |
February 20th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Rick - I’m an author who’s hoping the Kindle can democratize the publishing industry. Now that the industry is dominated by vertically-integrated publishing megaconglomerates who are only interested in books that can turn reliable, impressive profits, there’s no place for the book equivalent of an indie film or indie band.
POD and self-pub are stigmatized and also totally shut out of the national book distribution networks, but with ebooks authors can bypass publishers and distributors entirely to get their work directly to the reader. I’m having some success with my Kindle-edition novel ‘Snow Ball’, but I’m having trouble finding ways to promote it or raise its profile since there seems to be no ‘Booklist’ or ‘Publishers Weekly’ targeted specifically to the Kindle (yet).
I’m trying to get Kindle bloggers to review free copies in the meantime. Might you be interested? I entered a link to a free excerpt from the novel under ‘website’ on this form, if you’d be willing to take a look at it. Thanks!