If I were the author, I'd reply: Dear Reader, I write, not draw.

Thanks,
Megan J.
Article Writer for Hire

Offering extras with ebooks wont grab many people I would have thought. Better just to drop the price because it just feels like a rip off being charged so much for what must be so much cheaper to produce...

I doubt that Amazon was stupid enough to imagine they could maintain the lock on Kindle books for long. Just long enough to establish the Kindle as a viable ebook platform.

-Hanna

and of course apple will sell tons of ipads, one way or another. most will move while it's winter and the days are short, and only those who are on vacation will be entertaining the notion of taking their new toy to the *beach*... then once they're really hooked, they'll never go outside again. oh wait. they already don't go outside, 'cause they all got a wii for christmas.

one step closer to our becoming the culture predicted by 'wall-e'? with the right marketing strategy, of course it could happen.

seriously, though, who knows. people who don't read talk about reading a lot, and loudly. it'll be some time before we can see what people actually *do*.

an interesting article. You might want to take a look at the Yudu self publishing platform which is free and also could be interesting to your readers. It is simple to use and has video tutorials for anyone that needs any extra help.

Best Wishes,

I've been there myself -- I completed one graduate degree prior to online access to any kind of 'critical mass' of content in my field; and I completed one graduate degree during a time when a great deal of content could be accessed online. I don't think it's necessarily lazy, or even unreasonable, to want to spend more of one's time reading discovered material and discovering more; and less of one's time driving or riding a train, bus or airplane to another library. I'd frankly rather download material and spend my *real* time thinking and doing my actual work.