What E-publishing means to a country boy:
If you didn’t grow up where I did, you may not understand what this means, but it’s worth hearing. I know a lot of people with e-readers who are reading voraciously, who had very little access to books previously. When I was a boy, before we found that warehouse, we had just the books my mother had brought out of her father’s house and stored in a dead, heavyweight 1960s refrigerator that she had repurposed as a bookcase. As a child, I wasn’t even allowed to read anything other than picture books at the library until my parents faced off with the librarian behind a closed door and left him shaking and pale.
Now, an hour and a hundred twenty, and you own a library.
The power in publishing is shifting.
Most U.S. readers are unaware of ebook availability at libraries.
It’s the end of the [publishing] world as we know it.