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A quick note about recent developments.
Barnes and Noble predicts that digital books will surpass hardcopy sales within two years. Certainly the trends are clearly in that direction. For writers, this may be a welcome development, as the route to digital publication is much shorter and easier. But then there looms the major challenge of book promotion. That’s the major challenge of the future for writers.
Broken Pencil has just issued an important post about audio books. Almost simultaneously, we learn that Audiobooks.com books can now be easily and directly downloaded into Kindle e-book readers. Hmmm, just two weeks ago, I passed on a purchase on the Kiondle DX while my brief visit to the US, solely because of its limited access to audio books. Well, next time…
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