We are ready for ebooks’ versions immediately upon a title’s publishing
This is an open request to authors and publishers – when you release a new book – please make an e-reader version available immediately as well.
Times are changing. There’s an overpour of new books every hour. I, your customer, want my book here and now.
Please indulge me.
The digital world will create a new future for books. Their digitization will empower new formats, marketing and availability. The future of books is eBooks. E-readers will dramatize the concept of conventional books and will create new long tail marketing schemes. That will happen in a gradual process.
But right now, till all the troops are aligned, and the chasms are crossed, we, readers, are ready now, on the single book level.
It is such fun, when you are waiting for a new book to be published – to have it in your hands to read the minute it’s out.
In our flat world this immediacy is possible by replacing shipment with download, if it is not in a bookstore next to me. The future of books is e-readers of sorts.
Please enhance the adoption curve by connecting it with the spontaneity of an instant gratification.
I am a book lover. I grew up on the scent of a “fresh” book straight from the printer’s warehouse. But today’s globalization and digitalization offer new kinds of instant gratification and new modes of being intoxicated by the ability to read your favorite author or update on your favorite subject on the dot.
It is part of the new digital belonging – being able to be part of a global conversation around the publishing of a new book and the conversations around it, -
I am not going to go into the commercial considerations of a proprietary edition like the kindle or general eBook options, but either way, the benefits are huge:
- There’s an increasing return cycle – the more books will come out in an eBook version – the more publishers and authors will make it a mainstream application
- No paper… saves so many rainforests.
- Makes reading a more intuitive and comfortable experience
- Product versioning – good for marketers.
- The future of book marketing
- And maybe the most important – one more happy customer.
So next time I am being notified that the book I was waiting for was published – please make it available for me however and whenever I want it.
