Get a free email newsletter subscription from PublishersWeekly.com and you'll see figures like that. Last Christmas Day, Amazon sold more ebooks than hardbacks. It's kept going up ever since.

Some do. I do, and a guy I helped publish his first book did, too. Got an article about him on the biggest site for screenwriters in the UK, with a chapter downloadable for free.

And people have to go to bookshops, look in a category, read the titles on spines, and inspect. In contrast, 25% of book sales now (roughly) are ebooks. Online, you can enter a type of book and get choices you can scroll through much more quickly and read sample pages. The advantage goes to ebooks.

Guess what? Most publishers don't do much of anything to promote you. That's why Wayne Dyer had to load up a bunch of books in his car and drive around to radio stations getting talking opportunities back in the day. I've had about 40 books published, lots of how-to, and for the most part, I've made all my own publicitiy, like getting interviewed in a print newsletter reaching 700,000 people. Or calling in to a national radio show, mentioning the book, and selling out the 10,000 first run. On the Net, you can build buzz by a lot of HARD WORK. Just like in the real world. I've never read a Konrath book and probably won't due to what he writes about, but I admire what he's doing.