NEWS: “On Monday, the 40-year-old Ann Arbor retailer called it quits after years of trying to compete with online bookseller Amazon.com and other booksellers. And while customers at Borders' flagship store on East Liberty Street in downtown Ann Arbor said the company was slow to adapt, they say they will miss having a brick-and-mortar place to browse for books.”In 1999 when I contracted Tangled Memories to an upstart e-publisher, I quickly learned it was a waste of time. Twelve years later, online book sales and ebooks have brought an end to an era in publishing. Back then we didn’t have electronic devices for reading ebooks. Now we can choose from Kindles and Nooks. My iPad is equipped with three different types of e-readers. I’ve read more books in the year and a half since my husband bought me my iPad than I read in the five years before. Let’s face it BUY WITH ONE CLICK is too easy to do!
A multi-published author told me recently that authors have “more power than we've ever had before.” In my hometown, a local businessman John Locke became the first self-published author to join the "Kindle Million Club."
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, you can’t ignore ‘em any longer.
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