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It is not uncommon to read articles asking questions with phrases such as “Are eBooks Dead” or “Are Books Dead “? These articles bear witness to the changing times for digital ebooks and physical books.

It is evident that e-Reader Devices, Smartphones, PDA’s and mobile Readers have increased their sales over the last years and months. Additionally, new best seller books are introduced into ebook releases in advanced numbers to satisfy consumer purchases. It is obvious ebooks trend higher than prior years.

The evolving direction toward digital text and content at this time is to obvious to ignore.

For folks like me, it was a gifted treasure that I was involved with digital ebooks since 1998 when education first took its online acceptance in larger numbers. It was then via the Internet schooling that ebooks proved its technological advancement and benefits, including price reductions.

The evolution of digital ebooks is yet to see its greatest sophisticated development. We are still in a pioneering era. This is why if you have been aspiring to write your own book or ebook, the time could not be better for you to achieve your desire.

If you have been wanting to write your book or ebook, you should begin now and place it into the marketplace. You have many available capabilities that enable you to deliver your material to the many consumers who are anxious to read ebooks on their e-readers or books in paper back.

I will discuss the Print On Demand Paper Back Self-Publishing in a different post.

In this article I will concentrate my discussion on digital ebooks relative to the latest e-readers that have been introduced to the marketplace.

Currently, there is a need for published works for the many “e-readers” (digital people readers) who are purchasing eReader devices.

This could not be a better time to become involved with the publishing of ebooks.

The most recent introduction to the Marketplace that sets greater competitive advancement comes from Barnes and Nobel.

Barnes and Noble e-Reader

Barnes and Noble “the Nook”, recently unveiled, their own e-reader to compete with Amazon’s Kindle.

B&N e-reader includes integrated Wi-Fi and the ability to share e-books with others using B&N’s PC, Mac or smartphone compatible software.

In addition, the Nook supports “epub”, a major open e-book standard, and PDF, which enables users to upload documents from a computer.

The Nook’s entry of the e-reader into the current market enables competition with Amazon’s Kindle.

The consumer and writer benefits from technological advances to e-readers including the eventual decrease for price in competitive price wars.

There are other companies such as Sony, Spring Design and IREX who may also benefit from the competitive market that B&N’s e-reader sets into play.

It is exciting to know that the Nook will soon have more than a million e-books for sale since they are already a book publisher and seller. Additionally, this will reduce the cost of publishing along with sales for an e-reader device.

Google Books is making available to Nook users, almost a half million free non-copyrighted books. Amazon’s Kindle cannot claim such numbers or no cost book capabilities as B&N e-reader. However, you can bet that Amazon will soon address the competition in some variant.

Amazon Kindle

While both Amazon and B&N use digital rights management technology to prevent e-book piracy, B&N has introduced sharing within its protected house. Nook users can lend an e-book to others for up to 14 days. Just like lending a paperback, the lender will not have access to the e-book while its being borrowed. Features that allow people to share e-books are considered an important step toward moving e-readers from mostly avid readers and business travelers and into the hands of mainstream consumers.

Another advantage of the Nook over Amazon’s Kindle, is limited, Wi-Fi capabilities.

The popularity of wireless enables B&N to offer Nook users to come into its stores, where they can use free Wi-Fi to browse available books with discounts and other promotions.

The Nook’s Wi-Fi and 3G wireless capabilities, provided by AT&T (NYSE: T), will only access B&N’s online properties in comparison to Amazon providing a 3G connection on the Kindle to buy books only from Amazon.

The Nook and the Kindle starting price at approximately $259 may still be too expensive for most readers.

Recognition that most consumers would not purchases these type devices until the e-readers have a starting price of $98 or less. Nevertheless, the popularity of e-readers among electronic book users sees a flourishing marketplace.

Forrester Research provided a report on September 2, 2009 that surveyed 4,706 US consumers.

“What we found was that the price points for how most consumers value eReaders is shockingly low–for most segments, between $50 and $99. (Currently, eReaders in the US are priced between $199 for the Sony Pocket Reader and $489 for the Kindle DX.)”

Forrester Research

“What this means: The maximum addressable market for eReaders as they are currently priced is substantial–but to reach the largest market possible, the prices will need to come way down. And even then, eReader are never going to be as big a market as mp3 players, which 110 million US consumers own.

But they will still have phenomenal social and economic impact as they catalyze a new behavior of digital reading across multiple devices. We’re just at the beginning of this revolution…

The profit and marketplace potential will surely see Amazon respond to B&N’s Nook e-reader….

The potential for ebook authors is an additional market that emphatically increases for with the onset of e-readers comes the content.

Therefore, recognize that it is a chance of a lifetime to write, create and publish your works and materials for digital ebooks.

If you would like to learn more, you can always contact me for further details.

Kindest Regards, B. Robert

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