Maggie's Farm

E-reading isn’t reading.

Horsefeathers. I've used my Kindle Fire now for a little over a year and the only reason I'll go back to a dead tree version is if I can't get it in e-book.

And Mr. Piper glosses over the fact that with the e-book format allows for self-publishing, or publishing by a smaller house, broadens what we can read. I have become a fan of Atomic Robot books - a small publisher who will format your book and place it with Amazon, B&N, Apple, etc., for a small, very small, cut of the sales fee. Even Amazon only takes 30% for handling your book if it sells. And there are a lot of good authors who were frustrated with just writing fan fiction who have transferred over to e-books and written some good ones. New authors, new concepts, new ideas - they come from everywhere.

Admittedly you have to kind of separate the wheat from the chaff, but if you latch onto certain authors who you like, it's a fairly good bet that you will be satisfied with their offerings.

And my Grandson (all of 3 years old) loves his Kindle Fire - there are all kinds of interactive kids games that teach the fundamentals of reading, pattern recognition, etc. I gave him mine when the Kindle Fire HD came out and he uses it fairly often.

So for my money, the e-book is a great advancement in the whole concept of reading and getting people to read.