Books or Ebooks?

[monkey-business]

What is the best to write? And why?

[kaykay1216]

I prefer books, but technology is becoming a huge factor to ordinary lives of people today. To evolve with this change, Ebooks would be the best to write.

[johappy]

I prefer reading books, but I think writing ebooks is easier. With an ebook, it doesn't really matter how long your book is because the thickness isn't present to degrade it.

[MaySage]

It does depend on the public you're writing for - for example, I'm writing contemporary women fiction: I definitely need eBooks.
But the best bet is to do both if you use CreateSpace, the conversion from one to the other is incredibly painless

-- 20 Jun 2015, 11:28 --

It does depend on the public you're writing for - for example, I'm writing contemporary women fiction: I definitely need eBooks.
But the best bet is to do both if you use CreateSpace, the conversion from one to the other is incredibly painless

[zeldas_lullaby]

I agree with MaySage. I do both: Kindle and paperback. I prefer paperbacks myself--of everything. Books I buy, the books I myself write, etc. But eBooks is the wave of the future, so I offer that too. Amazon does make it easy. Well, there's a learning curve with the formatting of both options.

[moderntimes]

monkey, it doesn't matter. Just write the book, and when it's sold and published, your publisher will both print it and issue e-books, usually simultaneously. It's not a decision you have to make because your publisher will do both on your behalf.

-- 20 Jul 2015, 20:17 --

For example, the small publisher who just agreed to offer me a contract for my 3 private detective novels will be both printing them in "trade paperback" format and also e-book, probably offering them at the same time. Or maybe, the print version first followed by the Kindle version shortly afterward. This time gap allows print sales to generate more steadily, since bookstores are a critical element in sales figures, even nowadays.

Incidentally, royalties for the author usually are in the neighborhood of 20%-25% for print, and upwards of 40% for e-book sales, but this varies depending on the advance, low, high, or not at all.

[Connoisseur]

Both. You presumably want to reach as large of an audience as you can.

[Hatter]

I have always and, most likely, will always prefer the physical nature of "real" books. I love the smell of them, the look of them, and the feel of them as I hold them and turn the pages. That being said, when I was in the US Air Force, I traveled a lot and you just can't carry a load of books to read. I would buy the e-books because of convenience and if I liked it, I would buy a physical copy.

[pauljeday]

As far as writing is concerned they are both the same, though Kindle format is getting easier to write for.

[rssllue]

Both. You presumably want to reach as large of an audience as you can.

Agreed!

[5ngela]

I don't quite understand what do you mean, but I like both of them. And I still buy both of them.

[Blak_Lotus]

I was a 'purist' for many years because I love the feel of a real book, the smell, turning the page...however my only time to read now is at night so I figured I would buy a Kindle Paperwhite and it is the best thing that I ever bought.

[Ashton]

I love Ebooks personally.

It saves on paper, space, and money.

Plus I think reading digitally can be better. I personally normally have a collection of of to be read. If I am going somewhere I don't need to decide which book to bring, since I will have all of my books on my reader.

[whomeqqqq]

you write a book

how you publish it in whatever media is irrelevant to writing it

why not print and ebook
audio is too expensive to produce and has too small a market

then the question is which ebook formats
there are hundreds
kindle nook kobo and pdf as well as epub3 seem to be the biggest sellers by far

What is the best to write? And why?

[whomeqqqq]

first you say they are the same
then kindle is easier

why is kindle easier
if they are truly the same isnt just writing a book the same no matter what media it is published in

As far as writing is concerned they are both the same, though Kindle format is getting easier to write for.