I keep hoping for more Kindle sales, but young adult is a tough market for the Kindle. It’s kind of a tough sell to get a parent to shell out $359 for a device for a teenager, when all it does is enable them to read books or listen to audio books. What if they lost it?

Amazingly, more will spend the money to purchase their teen an iPhone or the iPod Touch, which have the e-book reader app Stanza. Now of course there is a Kindle app for these devices as well, so I may see a little more movement of e-books. I will say this, when I was a teen, the possibility that I would be given any one of these devices was less than slim-to-none. So, I’ll live in hope of the e-book sales, but keep plugging away with pushing paperback sales.

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LK Griffie
Visit me at Griffie World
To buy Misfit McCabe, visit my store at Lulu.com or purchase at Amazon.com
To track Misfit McCabe across the country, visit:
Where in the World is Misfit McCabe?
Own a Kindle? Download Misfit McCabe in an instant.
For other e-book formats, visit Smashwords.com
To read book reviews by LK Griffie, visit: The Lulu Book Review

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March 8th signals the start of e-book week. Why is this so important? Well, as technology advances more and more devices are popping up to enable us to read a variety of material outside of the traditional confines of a printed book. While I was preparing my young adult offering, Misfit McCabe, for publication, Amazon.com was introducing the Kindle. I had the Kindle version of Misfit McCabe formatted and available on Amazon.com several months before the printed version got there. Digital publishing is much more immediate than the more traditional printed material. Changes are much easier to make and it allows your work to be much more accessbile.

In addition to the above, e-readers such as the Kindle allow you to carry a vast library around with you for less weight than your average paperback. You have a large variety of reading material at your fingertips.

For people like me, who love to buy and keep books, e-books help solve the ever growing storage problem that I face. A digital bookshelf is so much easier to manage and maintain, then trying to find space for one more bookshelf in the house.  Generally speaking e-books are less expensive than the more traditionally published printed books as well.

To mark my participation in e-book week, I have made Misfit McCabe available in 9 different e-book formats on Smashwords.com and for the duration of e-book week you can purchase a copy for only $2.00, and if you’re not sure, you can view a sample of 50% of the book before you make your decision to buy. 

Whether you read my book or someone else’s, participate in e-book week, by reading an e-book.

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LK Griffie
Visit me at Griffie World
To buy Misfit McCabe, visit my store at Lulu.com or purchase at Amazon.com
To track Misfit McCabe across the country, visit:
Where in the World is Misfit McCabe?
Own a Kindle? Download Misfit McCabe in an instant.
For other e-book formats, visit Smashwords.com
To read book reviews by LK Griffie, visit: The Lulu Book Review

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