Anyone Eager for E-books?

It's a big day! My first two books in the Secrets of a Lab Rat series go digital today. Both No Girls Allowed (Dogs Okay) and Mom, There's a Dinosaur in Beeson's Lake are now available in e-book (Beeson's Lake is also new in paperback this week).   These are my first ever e-books and I'm excited (and nervous) to see how they'll do. Will kids and parents embrace digital technology? Or will they prefer to turn real pages instead of virtual ones? Only time will tell.   I've read the doomsday forecasts about the future of the printed word, but I hold a more optimistic view. I believe e-books will expand our reading universe, and there is plenty of room for both formats. I love reading on my husband's iPad, especially when it involves cool, 3-D, animated book apps. Moving Tales' The Pedlar Lady of Gushing Cross by Jacqueline O. Rogers is one of my favorites. It's great fun to read along with the narrator, see the words drop onto the page like raindrops, and watch the old woman tend her garden. What potential for my own material! Can't you just see Scab McNally arm farting in 3-D? Or his twin sister, Isabelle, putting her hand on her hip as she reads her tattletale news report?    Of course, I am not always in the mood for slick graphics and lilting narration. Sometimes, I want nothing better than to turn off all my gadgets, snuggle up with a warm throw (and an even warmer cat), and feel the the pages of Sense and Sensibility crinkle in my fingertips.     For me, the goal is to get, and keep, kids excited about reading. So whether it's hardcover, paperback, audiobook, Playway, or e-book, as long as a child is engaged in a world of imagination, I'm happy. And today, on the launch of my e-books, I'm definitely happy. Read On,Trudi