Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog
(This is the transcript of a BBC Breakfast Show Segment shown on Saturday 12th July 2014 – TSRA)
The home of author Nick Spalding is striking, owing to the lack of books.
There is no sign of the bulging bookcases and reams of paper you might expect in a writer’s den. Instead, a tablet computer lies on an armchair – a virtual library of Mr Spalding’s required reading and 11 of his own works.
It signals how the book world has changed as technology has moved on. It also gives a clue to how writers may be trying to make money in different ways.
The emergence of e-readers and tablet computers does not mean the end of printed books. However, it does allow writers to become their own publishers.
Yet, getting their words on the street still takes time, money, a bit of help, and a lot of luck.
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