I don't have one, but CNET review says: "The screen and lighting scheme are also decent, but the Paperwhite's screen and lighting are simply better -- and noticeably so."

Book Fungus Can Get You High

Junkie :P

I do purchase eBooks, but only if they are DRM-free and if there is no paper book available.
Baen Ebooks is a great resource for that.

So, obviously, I prefer real books. Not because I do not like eReaders, quite the opposite actually. They are convenient and way more practical. You have to give up the feeling of paper between your fingers and the unique smell... you know what I mean, but the advantages overweight the disadvantages.

No, the real problem is, that there is no open eReader. I would only buy open hardware, a free reader, with open software for me to enhance. The Kindle for example is a great device, but it is closed and I do not want to support a company that remotely deletes 1984 for some reason...

I aggree and hope there'll be an open eReader sometime, if Dragonbox grows, hopefully Michael will look into it.

I hope this example was completely fictional.

Well, in fact there is an open device that can read eBooks, the OpenPandora and soon the Pyra, although no eInk of course.

What do you think of Kobo?

Unfortunately not...

The Kobo is nice, at least the source code has been released as far as I know, but the device has still proprietary parts. If I had to buy a eReader, Kobo would be my choice though.

People pay that largely because of illegal price fixing. And when you buy books from an ebook reader you don't usually get to see what the actual price of the book would be for a paper back.

Personally, I only buy ebooks as I don't have room for a lot of books. I'll buy physical books only when they're work books, I want to share them or if I really have to have the book and there isn't an electronic form available.


As far as publishing goes, I'd recommend taking a look at smashwords.com. And for the love of god do not sign and exclusivity deal with Amazon. It's a shit deal that ensures that your book isn't legally available on other ebook readers.
Yep and Kindle is probably the worst offender in that other ebook readers at least inter-operate with each other. For the most part, I know that with Adobe moving to a new DRM that might not be entirely true for a bit.

I'm a self-published novelist (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HCZVCTO).
Decided to publish only as an ebook because paper publication is too expensive.
The book doesn't sell at all, but that's because nobody knows about it, since I am too introverted to promote it in any significant way (only things I did was send emails to friends and family + a giveaway on GOG).

I never read ebooks until two years ago, then bought a Kindle Fire HD (later upgraded to HDX), and since been reading almost exclusively on it.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but is English your first language? The description of the novel is hard for me to parse, "on the face of it" is a very awkward way to begin a sentence like that. I would have said something like "At first glance,...". And opening the preview, the first sentence isn't even grammatical, where is the main noun and verb?

Kudos to you for writing a book, and even more respect if English is not your native language, but the writing definitely needs improvement (perhaps the services of a good editor?) I'm just trying to be honest here, you might have a great story there but the awkward writing really turned me off. Just trying to give some constructive criticism.

No offence whatsoever.
What you term "awkward writing" is entirely intentional.
You are of course correct in saying the first sentence isn't "even grammatical". Again intentional. It's by no means the only such sentence in the novel (although the vast majority of sentences are).
Reading this novel is in some respect a leap of faith, as it requires the reader to trust that the writer knows what he's doing. Trust me, I do.
The novel is as much about literary and linguistic experimentation as it is about telling a story, perhaps even more so.
I do not fool myself into believing my novel will appeal to many. It is clearly a niche novel.
You may well not be in that niche. Or perhaps you are...

Regardless, thank you for taking the time to take a peek...

Now that is rather amusing given my exploration of shamanic and modern medicine!! I wonder if that accounts for my love of the scent of an old book? I was raised in a mouldy environment :)

From that I could infer that to some Catcher in the Rye, is a tale of psychedelic adventure :P

As to what my novels to be are about, my reply in this thread gives some background of a personal journey, as I have found all creation to be. How this journey will be presented is a work in progress, and as I am learning I cannot answer what it will be or even confine it to a specific genre at this stage. Given the inability of one to look beyond one's own subjective experience when creating, I am hesitant to say much more until an editor goes through the final work. Rewriting these tales is part of a more personal journey.

The plan is to create a series of three novels, the first being primarily focused on the lengthy walk I undertook in 2004. Given that my thought processes are tangential, I am attempting to construct a narrative that illustrates that process. Whilst it is a derivative of another genre, I hope it to be as close to original as one can be when it comes to creation, as I consider all creation to be based upon previous creation. It is a series of interconnected short stories, bound by synchronicity or coincidence, depending upon one's perspective on the subject.

I have been writing, researching and collaborating with others in order to birth this creation, and it is still definitely a work in progress regardless of the amount of work that has been done over the past decade. The key to the successful telling of these tales is not to make it about "I" as I have been prone to, but to create a tale that resonates with the reader rather than marginalise them due to narcissistic presentation. It will contain a healthy dose of magic, humour and philosophical insights from that journey :)

I do not have a time frame and will release it when it is at a standard that myself and learned people in the industry close to me believe it is ready to be released. How many great games have been released too early, only to require patching? Once released, I cannot patch this! It is important to me that it is DRM free, so further research is required regarding digital publishing as I hadn't considered that option before.

I would dearly like to derive an income from this endeavour, as is the hope of all when it comes to their passions. If I cannot find a way to do that and feel that it needs to be released, then I shall do so regardless and hope that the release leads to me being more self-sufficient in life.

Thank you all for your feedback, I will give further details when I am able to. For now, I am embarking upon a different stage of the journey I speak of in order to achieve more balance within before collating the work and presenting it to others :)