Your thoughts on ebooks for Middle Grade readers

I'm interested in the pros and cons of publishing ebooks for younger readers. My original plan was paperback only, because I didn't think dedicated e-readers would have made it to younger readers yet, but my daughters convinced me to release an ebook because a lot of their friends use smart phones and laptops to read with.

Has anyone else published in both print and ebook, and what were your findings?
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Published on October 16, 2011 20:44
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Sue Bursztynski Depends how young they are. I work in a high school and a lot of them have phones and some have e-readers, but in the end, they all come to the library for paperbacks. Do both.How much can it cost you to do an e-version anyway?

One of our students asked me if my novel Wolfborn was on iBook because he wanted it for his phone, even though he'd already bought the book in paperback and read it twice! ;-) Random House had done it in ePub as well as paperback.

And look at it this way: if you've got it in school libraries you can register for Education Lending Right, something you can't do if it's just on e-book.


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