eBooks for kids

[ellenkushner]

Yesterday's NYTimes ran an article on the swift and dramatic rise in e-book sales of children's and YA titles - pretty clearly tied to the surge of e-readers given as holiday gifts to kids. And apparently, some kids don't really differentiate between different kinds of Screen Time, and find themselves reading instead of watching TV.

All of which makes me very pleased to consider that all my novels are currently available in a number of e-book formats (platforms? whatever) . . . and so are deliasherman 's delightful, delicious "New York Between" kids' books Changeling and The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen. MMoMQ hardcover is also currently on Big Dog Sale right now...plus Kindle.. Come buy, come buy!

Comments

[sevenravens.livejournal.com]

That is so cool! How nice to hear good news about kids and reading.

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

That was fun! Someone quoting "The Goblin Market" to sell some books. I love e-books.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Thanks for noticing the quote!

[elswhere1.livejournal.com]

"apparently, some kids don't really differentiate between different kinds of Screen Time, and find themselves reading instead of watching TV."-- or playing on Webkinz or Club Penguin, no doubt.

Triiiicky!

*grins wickedly*
*considers getting eBook reader for S.*

[p-m-cryan.livejournal.com]

And apparently, some kids don't really differentiate between different kinds of Screen Time, and find themselves reading instead of watching TV.

Fascinating! Also synchronistic, since I just had a coffee-discussion with a colleague at the bookstore about my own psychological partitioning of Screen Time.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

I think there's probably a couple of factors there - people being more likely to buy a $139 device for a kid than one that costs over $300, and hopefully publishers realizing that people like me who mostly buy e-book and who still read YA are likely to be annoyed when we can't get the YA on the ereader.

[bluestalking.livejournal.com]

I'm not totally surprised! A lot of my internet screen-time as a teenager was fanfic-spent. I would like to know how many of the screen-readers in the study are big paper-readers as well. Did it talk about that?

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Click on the link - it's not a long article - and you don't want to take *my* word for paraphrasing what was in it!

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Yes, the article mentions adult YA readers - take a look!

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

...Well, that's *my* analysis, anyway!

[bluestalking.livejournal.com]

And then we proved how effective screen reading is by my totally missing that there was a link. Well done, self!

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

I think you're not the only one. I've just made it clearer - I hope!