In one of my most memorable book signings, I had just finished speaking to a group of 450 managers. Each had made a copy of my books available and it took me half an hour signing autographs for those who write to patiently queue.
This scene came to mind happy I just think about some advice I gave to a budding writer.
I suggested starting the tour in print and prestige, the publication of an electronic book. Construction of a map with one of them, not an editor and then brick-mortar and paper on the transformation of the piece into something tangible.
I also said that it must say it makes publishers before live audiences, so Avid book buyers in the homes of different places.
Then it hit me. You can not AUTOGRAPH an e-book can you? This is one of the biggest disadvantages of the medium. The author of paperwork, some of which the status of best-selling book, I have to say much of the attractiveness of the purchase volume of a loudspeaker is that it is a memory.
You can remove a shelf, or it shows a clean table support, so your friends and colleagues so impressed that you got up close and personal with someone at least moderately prominent are. It is the signature to prove, and personal commitment for you! You can have this band to your grandchildren, and beyond, and one can sense and even extrinsic value over the decades.
An e-book will be in all probability, never as “First Edition appreciated. One can not truly a “rare” book has become, either, as they can be stored in electronic systems that are increasingly economically.
We can not all e-book than in “good condition”, ie. In fact, most of the features tend to disappear him an aura of prestige and uniqueness of pounds if they only digital. In one of my most memorable book signings, I had just finished speaking to a group of 450 managers. Each had made a copy of my books available and it took me half an hour signing autographs for those who write to patiently queue.
E-books will come with us for a long time. However, it will never serve as a reminder of special events or important meetings, how to do classic books? The authors are not the only ones to receive the dedications in the books. We do the same for friends and relatives if we give them as gifts. not, the fact that we no autograph requests, e-books, they provide absolutely doomed to failure. It just makes conventional volumes of valuable and admirable by comparison.
August 17th, 2010
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