Going Digital?

IN THE NEWS: "See Below."

Wow. I must be bored. I so rarely "talk" about news. Normally, I usually just throw info out there and let people do with it what they want.

Ah-ha! Not today! Lucky you!

I thought this was interesting article from the Dallas News.com. In it, it stressed these two little tidbits of info:

"Exhibit A: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says that for books that come in both paper and electronic forms, e-books account for 6 percent of unit sales.

Exhibit B: Publishers Weekly reports that e-book sales are up four times over Penguin."

It's taken awhile for e-books to gain in popularity--if you can call them popular. Trust me. They aren't. But--as an electronic published writer--I find this article encouraging. I'm even becoming one of the statistics. I've finally reached the point where I want am looking at buying an e-reader. I'm not sure what kind, maybe Kindle or Sony. (Still waiting for Kindle to go down a bit more in price)

I can't take it anymore. I have paper books cluttering my office space, my book shelves, and my nightstand. It's getting to me. I'd like to store them in a nice compact space and out of the way--like in a hand held device. I don't have to worry because I can even get my Harlequin books digital now, too.

Living in a electronic age, information about digital books has been slow. But a financial representative I know actually had someone come into their office a few weeks ago and wanted to buy some Amazon stock because he had read about the Kindle and thought there was a future in it.

Unfortunately, we really don't know how "big" a future it will be.