Friday Poll – To Eread or Not to Eread?
[image error]Guess what, you guys?!
I got a Kindle!
After months of debating it, it finally arrived as a gift, which meant that I didn't have to think about it at all. I'm loving it!
And I have to say, I was leaning toward buying one anyway. Not to replace my paper books, but to augment them when I'm traveling or driving teenagers all over the place. Ideally, we'll get to a point where a download code for the ecopy will come with the purchase of a printed book (I'm sure this has been suggested elsewhere, but in the Zink house I have to give credit to Kenneth for the idea). That way, I could read my beloved paper copy before bed and pick it up on the fly on my Kindle during the day. In this way, it'd be like when you buy the Blue Ray copy of a movie and get the digital copy as well. And it makes sense! It would actually drive sales of paper books, because I don't know about you, but with most books, I'd be happy to pay a few bucks more for the paper copy and get the digital copy as well as opposed to getting only the ecopy.
Anyway, ereaders are changing the face of publishing in so many ways, but what I really want to know is if YOU have them and/or WANT them.
I'm especially interested to know what teens think, because yesterdays PW article on the subject pretty much validated the anecdotal evidence I've witnessed; Teens haven't made the switch as swiftly or in as large of number as have adults.
I do think that will change, but I'm curious to know what you think right now.
Along those lines, I hope you'll weigh in with this week's Friday Poll!
I've split this one out into two different polls, one for those of you over 21 and one for those of you under 21. Ideally, I'd like to have a third poll for bloggers, because I've always believed bloggers are a class unto themselves. They tend to be more aware of the trends in the publishing market, the intricacies behind publishing, etc. But I don't want to overwhelm you with polls! So for now, let's just break it down this way;
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