March 6th was the start for Read an EBook Week.

And here you thought the only thing that happened in March was St. Paddy’s Day. 

Mark Coker at Smashwords writes about the revolution in publishing, and though it might be a bit of a stretch to start with Egypt’s revolution and move right into publishing, it’s easy to follow how it started him thinking.

I believe the missing piece in all this talk of an ebook ‘revolution’ is that traditional publishing houses have editors, and that vetting and selecting process serves a hugely important function. It weeds out the real schlock. And people, there is some seriously bad schlock on those virtual shelves.

Yes, it’s fun to see your book up and in that cyberstore in an instant, but it often means that there has been too little checking of content. However, we are in the heady days of the beginning of all this and still feeling our way through it. I’m sure we’ll look back on these times like the horse and wagon delivery guy looked back at the introduction of the first car.

Transitions are messy. Which explains why that in-between time of purgatory is seen as a punishment.

I promise my book has been edited. This has now morphed into a shameless promotion piece. My ebook (available for purchase at Amazon and Smashwords is available now 🙂

After all, it’s Read an EBook Week.