Category: e-publication

Kindling the fire…

January 29, 2011

I’m such a Luddite. Technology and I have mostly been at loggerheads. I have a mobile phone which I keep in the glove-box of the car for roadside emergencies. I have no idea how to text or how to take pics on the phone or how to access text messages. Not sure that I will ever want to or that I really care, and I rarely if ever give my number to anyone. Personally I find mobiles intrusive because many of their owners rarely observe any sort of etiquette. I have a MacBookPro laptop and I can operate it to my satisfaction, but if there are ‘issues’, I sit and look at this piece of aluminium and think ‘Please give me a pad and pencil!’

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E-pub, e-books, e-readers . . .

January 19, 2011

Over the last year, I’ve been one of those who said ‘I shall never read e-books; I am a paper, bindings, smell and sound type of girl,’ and as for publishing an e-book: ‘My God!  Are you kidding?’ I’d read all the industry blogs on the increasing popularity or the e-book, I’d watched sales of e-readers climb and still I was unaffected.

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