With all the heated debate over ebooks these days, I've been doing some soul searching about where I stand in all of it. I've done my research, watched the videos, reads the articles and blogs, listened to book groupies, commuters, and casual readers. I've rolled my eyes at the relentless marketing (Ebooks for Valentine lovers...the romance!), the competition, the justifications, grandstanding, and chicken-littling about the end of reading as we know it. At the same time, I respect that there are some great changes afoot as paradigms shift like tectonic plates in the publishing and book selling worlds.
Full disclosure: I love my Kindle. I read ebooks on my Iphone. I also bought book as gifts at an indy bookstore this past weekend, and checked out books for my kids from the library. I read more than ever because the written word is so much more accessible to me. And yes, I can't wait to check out the iPad.
Our friend Laura Miller, co-founder of Salon.com and author of THE MAGICIAN'S BOOK: A SKEPTIC'S ADVENTURES IN NARNIA recently wrote a fantastic review of it all, check it out here.
As for Valentines Day, lets all hope for more nookie than Nooks, but I'll relish the romantically thoughtful gesture of an hour of quiet Book Review reading time and coffee in bed this Saturday morning....hint,hint.
