Yesterday was the start of the 2010 Read an E-Book Week. The Week, recognised by Chase’s Calendar since 2004, is designed to educate and inform the public about the “pleasures and advantages of reading electronically”. Essentially it’s an attempt to raise the profile of ebooks and get sceptics to give them a try.
During this week there will be various promotional events and some publishers will be making ebooks available to buy at reduced prices, or even offering them free of charge.
It’s a great opportunity for the epublishing world, especially given the phenomenal rise of the ebook’s profile in the last year. Let’s hope those readers who dip their toes into the ebook world do experience pleasures and advantages rather than a DRM fuelled nightmare such as that faced by many players of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed 2.
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