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It took only 24 hours for the first detailed report about book reading on the iPad to be available online. And as I’ve been predicting, I think the revolution in publishing has now officially begun.
Read the comparative review of the two e-book readers currently available for the iPad — Apple’s own iBook and Amazon’s Kindle for the iPad. And understand too that this is just the beginning. By year’s end, we’ll be inundated with hardware options, and the e-reader software applications will clearly outline the available routes to publication in the future.
By the way, I read earlier today a post on a news site declaring that in recent weeks, e-books have been outselling printed books. Probably an effect of the extraordinary buzz about digital books, but I do think e-book sales will become very substantial indeed.
National Public Radio {NPR] has simultaneously issued an especially provocative look at the future of self-publishing, which puts all the recent hullabaloo into proper perspective. Yes, the pendulum is swinging over to the writer’s side of the table, and NPR explains why.
Both of the online articles are worth a read. And they are both encouraging for us writers.
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