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The Future For Publishing.

For some time now I have been exploring the possibility of converting all of my published books into E-books that can be sold and downloaded from the internet much in the same way that music tracks are sold and downloaded by millions of people already all over the world. It is my intention to dramatically reduce the price of each book offered for sale, but because of the low price per book, perhaps only £2 or £3 they will be offered with a minimum purchase number of perhaps 5 books for £10 to make the transaction financially viable for all concerned. Obviously payment will be made on line and the sale will be instantaneous with the download instant as well. There will be no waiting for the postman or for the order to be processed.

The books will be offered in the P.D.F. format that seems to be very popular for internet documents and probably will consist of a single file for each book of about 2 or 3 meg. (Less for those without pictures.) With most people on Broadband, downloads will only take a few seconds for each book and of course the purchaser will be able to save the book on their computer or print it out as they wish. The files will be locked to prevent editing or tampering. The project is at an early stage, but will hopefully be in operation later this year after I get my commercial web-site teething problems sorted out. When everything is up and running there will also be several new titles in the range that will not have been published in any other form.

P.S. Since writing the above most of my books have been Up-loaded onto Google Book Search and can be found by typing the title of the book followed;- "By Alan J Hartley" into the ordinary Google Search Box.
SEE ALSO Electronic Books War.

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