Ebooks, Brick and Mortar, and All That

This post is little more than a compilation of links, really. Hopefully, you'll find them interesting.

First, The Author's Guild on How Apple Saved Barnes & Noble. Probably.

But wait! It would appear that even as we wait breathlessly for Borders to file for bankruptcy, Barnes & Noble may do so, also. (At least, in one blogger's opinion.)

Meanwhile, Publishers Lunch continues to issue reports with words like "decreasing," "decline," "smaller," "reorganized" and the ever-popular "moved on to other pursuits" with an amazing increase in the ratio of those words to the total word count of their reports.

Hmm ...

So, in light of all that, and when you look at how badly authors get screwed by publishers who sell their ebooks who, in turn make out so well, according to this post ...

You have to ask yourself why you'd want to have a traditional publisher, right?

This certainly applies to authors who write children's and young adult books, because even the New York Times has acknowledged that young adults and kids are totally getting into ebooks now.

So, why not be your own publisher? An author-preneur. You can do it.

Don't have the bucks? That's okay. There's a resource for creatives called Kickstarter. "A new way to fund & follow creativity." That includes writers, natch. :)

And a hat tip to Elisa Lorello's blog for the link to Kickstarter. Thanks, Elisa! :)