Comments on: Ask Ron – What do you think about the future of E-Books? http://www.publishingbasics.com/2004/09/22/ask-ron-what-do-you-think-about-the-future-of-e-books/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:59:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nigel Robinson http://www.publishingbasics.com/2004/09/22/ask-ron-what-do-you-think-about-the-future-of-e-books/comment-page-1/#comment-54181 Nigel Robinson Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:11:02 +0000 http://blog.selfpublishing.com/?p=312#comment-54181 I go along with Ron, that e-books are a waste of time at the moment. I recently downloaded an e-book on how to make money selling e-books. The author proudly boasted that he'd sold 1500 e-books in the last year, using his tested methods. I reckon those sales netted him little more than $5000. Surely, a typing error. Didn't he mean 150,000 e-books? Nope. Discussing this at a Yahoo forum, I discovered that 1500 e-books a year was pretty good. Frankly, I could make more money working in my local bar, and have more fun. And yet... in the 1980s (yes, I'm that old) I recall folk saying that web marketing was a fad. Nobody was making any money from it. In ten years time, I suspect, e-books will be the mainstream business of publishing. I'm an avid fun of my Sony e-book reader. I don't buy e-books for it. There are not enough titles available as yet. Instead, I download from the inexhaustible supply of public domain materials at Gutenberg, etc. There's nothing like reading Religio Medici in the shadow of the Pope's palace at Avignon, when on a tedious coach holiday. E-book readers can literally save your sanity... I go along with Ron, that e-books are a waste of time at the moment. I recently downloaded an e-book on how to make money selling e-books. The author proudly boasted that he’d sold 1500 e-books in the last year, using his tested methods. I reckon those sales netted him little more than $5000. Surely, a typing error. Didn’t he mean 150,000 e-books? Nope. Discussing this at a Yahoo forum, I discovered that 1500 e-books a year was pretty good.

Frankly, I could make more money working in my local bar, and have more fun.

And yet… in the 1980s (yes, I’m that old) I recall folk saying that web marketing was a fad. Nobody was making any money from it. In ten years time, I suspect, e-books will be the mainstream business of publishing.

I’m an avid fun of my Sony e-book reader. I don’t buy e-books for it. There are not enough titles available as yet. Instead, I download from the inexhaustible supply of public domain materials at Gutenberg, etc. There’s nothing like reading Religio Medici in the shadow of the Pope’s palace at Avignon, when on a tedious coach holiday. E-book readers can literally save your sanity…

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