Thanks so much, everyone, for your comments on e-books. As I said in my original post, I prefer print books myself. There is just something about being able to hold that book in your hands.

But, as a publisher, I know that there is a growing market out there for e-books. Some authors are published in e-book format only. I like to offer both print and e-books at my publishing houses so the reader will have a choice.

I do think that it is a generational thing combined with a financial thing for some people actually preferring e-books. I have many ebooks, both non-fiction and fiction. I do have a hand held e-book reader but usually read them from my laptop. Most of the e-books that I have are in PDF format and don't seem to be easily transferable to the hand held device.

If any of you would like to give it a try with e-books, I have 4 of them downloadable for free at my personal website. Two of them are cookbooks that I participated in some time back. One is interviews with over 50 authors, myself included, and compiled and edited by Dallas Hodder Franklin. The other one is sample chapters of books published by a group that I founded back in 2001, NUW (Not the Usual Way) Independent Authors Community.

If any of you want the free e-books, go here to get them:
http://kristieleighmaguire.com

You will see the book covers. Just click on the covers for more info on each book.