What is a book in 2008?

Today I made two of my books available on Amazon in Kindle version. It
was very quick and both are available.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_kinc?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&f\
ield-key words=d+t+pollard&x=12&y=21
<http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_kinc?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&\
field-keywords=d+t+pollard&x=12&y=21>


What it made me think about is what it means to have a book out in
today's market. One of my books is available in paper, audio download,
CD set, kindle and another ebook format. Only one of those formats is
the "classic" sign-the-book version. Pricing ranges from $39.00 to $6.

The marketing issues for each of the versions of the same book is
slightly different. How does the ability to download audio or text
versions of the same work change how it is viewed and valued?

If digital formats took hold and began to dominate, it would destroy
traditional book retailing, how authors interact with customers and
somewhat change what it meant to be an author.

www.DTPollard.com <http://www.dtpollard.com/>


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