{"id":2890,"date":"2011-06-24T10:00:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=2890"},"modified":"2011-07-18T09:22:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T14:22:16","slug":"a-benefit-of-ebook-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2011\/06\/24\/a-benefit-of-ebook-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"A Benefit of eBook Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"When I completed my first novel, Hell Comes With Wood Paneled Doors<\/em><\/a>, I obviously hoped it would be published by a traditional publisher. I finished it in the early 2000s, and it was met with the typical rejection I seem to get:<\/p>\n

“I liked this, but it’s a bit too quirky and I don’t know how I’d market it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Still, when I had dreams of Hell Comes With Wood Paneled Doors<\/em> on bookshelves, I had an even bigger dream: that people would take the book with them on road trips and take photos holding it in front of all kinds of road side attractions. A stranger holding something I wrote in front of the Grand Canyon, Cadillac Ranch, or a giant ball of twine would have made me just as happy as having the book published; in some ways, maybe even a little more.<\/p>\n

Technology is a Wonderful Thing<\/strong><\/h2>\n

By releasing Hell Comes With Wood Paneled Doors<\/em> as an ebook, obviously that dream of people holding my physical book while on vacation won’t happen. But there are benefits to ebooks that go beyond picking something up off the shelf in a bookstore.<\/p>\n

A good friend<\/a> vacations in Alaska every year; he and his family are up there right now.<\/p>\n

On the day I released Hell Comes With Wood Paneled Doors<\/em> as an ebook, I received a text message from my friend, letting me know that he bought it.<\/p>\n

In the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n

In his words:<\/p>\n

“No running water, no toilets, but 3G (upgrade from Edge last year…).”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s also a photo:<\/p>\n

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Tom Wideman, looking nowhere near as feral as I would after two weeks in the wilds of Alaska.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So maybe it’s not a physical book that is being dragged all over the country–and the mighty Isuzu Rodeo isn’t an actual station wagon–but somebody who’s spending two weeks in a camp in Alaska with no running water or toilets was able to tap some buttons on his iPad and buy my book<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Ain’t technology grand?<\/p>\n

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