The best part….

The built in Kindle!!!

I know I have always argued on here that I don’t completely get the ebook thing.   Obviously I just needed one.  Having it in my phone is the best thing ever. The convience factor is what really has me impressed.  I just recently started working at a dance club and at the end of the night, I have to wait around for a while to get paid.  No big deal but it is a bit boring.  Well problem solved.  The other day I busted out my phone and started in on reading Divine Beginnings which by the way is only in ebook format.  Yes, I’m totally the nerdy girl sitting in one of the hottest clubs in Portland reading but whatever.

I was always excited to see what books they offer for free.  There is a lot of classics that I have never read that are available for free.  For example, I downloaded The Scarlet Letter.  Again, this is a plus for me because I can make sure to always have something on my phone to read for those times when I’m sitting around after work.

So overall review is that I love having the Kindle on my phone but I still am reluctant to actually buy one.  I could however see myself getting one if the cost went down or something like that.

Sorry I still haven’t gotten the post about Rhiannon up.  Soon, I promise.

          Give something away free and if it is good enough, people will want more.  This is such an easy concept that we see all over the place.  A month free trial period of tv channels, free lipstick samples, free song downloads…this list could go on a long time.  When I came across this article talking about the benefits to an author/publisher for giving away a book, it definately made complete sense. 

          One fundamental part of the arguement was that reading one book will lead to buying others.  Sure you can say that maybe the person wouldn’t like the book and therefore not spend money but I think that in most cases that wouldn’t be true.  Why would you download a book that you weren’t into at all in the first place?  Personally, I tend to get stuck on different authors until I have read all their works or quite a few of them.  This idea works even better when you take series into consideration. If the story and characters lure you in, you will want more.

          I really do think this is a great idea but one flaw is that this  would not work well with brand new authors.  If you only have one book out there is going to be nothing else for people to buy.  I’m making an assumption here but if you are a digital book reading kind of person, you probably wouldn’t go buy the physical book after downloading a free digital copy. 

          Overall though, I think this is a very interesting story because it highlights how digital can help the physical world.   It was something that I hadn’t really considered before.  I think if I was an author in the position to do something like this, I would.   Actually I would be more inclined to do something like dollar downloads and giving all the money to the humane society.   Someone should get all over that idea. Please steal that one from me.