Veteran SF writer and devout Luddite Ray Bradbury has finally bowed to the inevitable and allowed Farenheit 451 to be reproduced in a digital format. Bradbury’s hand was forced by contractual reality: his publishers refused to re-sign him without digital rights.
Surely print must now be damned if even Bradbury has to consort with his Devil? To mark the occasion, we have commissioned two posts about the brave new world of the eBook. Here, Paul Torday, author of the award-winning novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, tells of his latest digital foray.
Where will this end up?
This December,Breakfast at the Hotel Déjà Vu, a novella I have written, will become available only as an eBook. The format will be for use on a Kindle, the electronic digital book reader marketed by Amazon. No print version will be published, at least for now. Why?
The publishing world is going through a period of profound change.
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