Hey y’all, Samhain and its authors are celebrating “Read an E-book Week” along with reader appreciation! I hope many of you have made the leap to buying your first electronic book. There are so many ways you can buy and read them.
For those with some extra cash, you can buy an e-book reader. You can read them on your computer, your smartphone or PDA. There are a limited number of trees in the world, and we need to help do our part to prolong the forests.
I found these statistics online:
“It takes 24 trees to produce a ton of printing paper, the type normally used for books, 12 trees are harvested for a ton of newsprint. Up to 35% of books printed for consumers (down from nearly 60% several years ago) are never read. They are used for window dressing in book stores, and eventually returned to the publisher for disposal in landfills. Given that a mature tree can produce as much oxygen in a season as 10 people inhale in a year, a serious alternative to paper books, magazines and newspapers needs to be considered. That alternative is e-books.”
So, what can you do? Try an e-book if you haven’t. Help us celebrate over on the Samhain loop with our authors as we have fun, frolic and prizes and raise a toast to YOU. Here’s the schedule - which is in Central time so adjust accordingly.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/samhaincafe/cal
Hope to see y’all around - I’ll be there Friday afternoon for two hours and I’ll be giving away a free download and a gift certificate to spend at MBAM.
READ AN E-BOOK!!
