Digital Textbooks At Last!

Yes, it's just a trial, but still...

If you Google my name, and if you're thinking of doing business with me I always assume you have, one of the things that comes up is a comment I made on an article about e-books a few years ago.

Basically I was saying that the most logical application I could conceive of for e-books was textbooks. Anyone who has watched a junior high student load 30lbs of books on their back understands why e-books would be the ideal textbook. The older the student, the truer this is since the books only get heavier.

Now, if they would only make e-books cheaper*...

*A friend loaned me her Kindle to play with. LOVE having 40+ books in my hand at once and being able to carry them all around in something lighter than a paperback. HATE how much Amazon is charging for a downloaded file AND the fact that there is no way to borrow books, library-style, for these things. Otherwise I'd beg Santa for one. Right now, if I got it I'd just be annoyed that I was too cheap to put any books on it.

Paper or Plastic?

For your book, that is.

No, not what it's in, what it's made OF.

Check out this article at TheStar.com about a new environmental book printed on recyclable plastic.

Me? I'm a closet greenie, so I think it's a great idea.

Nice to know I have a few more years

A story to inspire all writers, courtesy of Yahoo...

"96-year-old author proves it's never too late to write that book"

Nice to know there's hope for all of us not quite so old, eh?