Should
I change old ebook files to this new format?
Not exact matches
Unfortunately, these
changes don't meet Amazon's criteria for updating a purchased
ebook, so I can't bulk - update everyone's Kindle version to the latest (though of course, you can delete the
old one and buy a new one...).
I'd love to have an agent if they were able to address the
changes in the industry as they occur, rather than turning only to
older models of publishing, e.g. arranging
eBook contracts in which the
eBooks are overpriced and the author receives a small royalty — ugh, who would want that?
The
old tools stills work, and the
ebooks they produce aren't rejected so why
change?
In the
old days of traditional publishing this really didn't matter too much but since the arrival of
ebooks and self - publishing that has all
changed; even a writer with a traditional publishing deal is expected to carry his / her weight of the marketing effort.
I agree that the situation will quickly
change but in a not English - speaking small country (i.e. Italy, 60 million inhabitants) even an
old fashion technology (current
ebooks) could flourish for years to come
That's not quite the case with today's
ebooks — though
changes to the way used
ebooks are traded and sold might someday endow those circuits and data with the romance of
old - fashioned books.
If
Ebooks were indeed sustaining and just a format
change, we should be seeing the
old order of trade publishing flourishing, we are not, our bookstores are dying.
Evidently Bradbury
changed his mind about
ebooks as he got
older.
As an
older reader, my eyesight has deteriorated to the point where
ebooks are the only way I can read, because the text is crisper and I can
change the size to suit me.
As readers continue to turn to tablets and
ebook readers instead of paperbacks,
old - fashioned booksellers like Barnes & Noble have struggled to keep up with the
changing tide.