{"id":3691,"date":"2012-01-20T08:14:22","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T14:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=3691"},"modified":"2012-01-20T08:14:22","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T14:14:22","slug":"the-e-book-book-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2012\/01\/20\/the-e-book-book-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"The E-Book Book Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars<\/a>\"\" (affiliate link) sits on a pile of books on the hutch over my desk.<\/p>\n

I try to read one or two YA books a year, and this will be one of them.<\/p>\n

The video below is something John made earlier this week. He’s on a book signing tour with his brother, Hank, and his sister-in-law.<\/p>\n

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E-Books on the Road<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I chat about e-books, here, quite a bit. I like e-books a lot. I’ll review a wonderful e-book on Monday: Ann Pratchett’s The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life<\/em> (Kindle Single)<\/a>\"\" (affiliate link). But there’s one drawback to the e-book: signing tours!<\/p>\n

When I received a photo from the mighty Tom Wideman<\/a> from the back woods of Alaska, showing me that he picked up a copy of Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors<\/em><\/a> (HCWWPD) on the day it was released, I thought it was one of the more wonderful uses for technology. A guy in the middle-o’-nowhere Alaska got a copy of an e-book I released, on the day it was available.<\/p>\n

Recently, CM Stewart<\/a> sent a photo of her on the road with HCWWPD<\/a>. Since HCWWPD is a road trip story, it’s an ideal book — to me — to have been published as a physical version with me on a signing tour.<\/p>\n

When I submitted it years ago — to agents who loved it, but thought it was too quirky for them to know what to do with — I dreamed of getting an agent and making a sale. Not because it would have meant I somehow “made it,” but because I would have had a physical <\/em>book with which to tour. I dreamed of restoring an old station wagon for a cross country trip, signing books.<\/p>\n

Obviously, that never happened.<\/p>\n

A Problem with E-Books<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I love e-books. I know there are blog tours and other ways to promote e-books, but…it’s not like you can pile into a car with loved ones or good friends and go on tour like you can with a physical book.<\/p>\n

Or maybe you can.<\/p>\n

Some of the neatest jumps in the way we think about things come along from changes in technology. So while I<\/em> haven’t figured out a way to do an e-book signing tour, I’m not saying it can’t be done.<\/p>\n

Any thoughts on ways of making one work?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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