10 Billion Reasons That I'm Taking "Die By Wire" To E-Book First
Don't get me wrong: I love dead-tree books. I have a house full of them … Five or six thousand or so. But this headline tells a lot of the reasons I am handling this one myself:
"For the record: this is eBooks only – all in all, there are more than 1 million books, newspapers, magazines and blogs available for Amazon Kindle today, the company professes on this page (see 'Massive Selection') and elsewhere.
"Conveniently, Juniper Research this morning released a new report on mobile eBook sales, which it forecasts to reach close to $10 billion ($9.7b) by 2016, up from $3.2 billion this year.
"The research firm says the expected jump in eBook sales for portable devices can be attributed to the growing number of dedicated eReader devices on the market, an upsurge in usage across smartphones and tablet computers and the rise of brand bookstore apps like Apple's iBookstore and, of course, Amazon's Kindle Store.
"Juniper Research says the increasing demand for tablets means that such devices will account for nearly 30 percent of all eBook downloads by 2016."
For dead-tree fans like me, Die By Wire will also be available as a physical book through Amazon simultaneously with the e-book. PLUS …readers who buy the physical book will be able to download the ebook for free.
There are some other very good reasons I'm taking this route. Stay tuned for more.
