Dear Thesaurus Bookshop
Customer,
There has been much talk over
the past couple of years about the eBook vs pBook. Is the eBook going to take
over? Are bookshops going to disappear?
Our answer is NO and NO.
Why?
There are many people who
enjoy reading from their eReader and just as many people who love to read a
print book. And many more people who enjoy both. It doesn’t seem to be an “age
thing”. In fact, I think there are more older users of eReaders than younger
people. From the 30 somethings I speak to, they are tired of reading from a
screen by the time they finish work. It’s a print book for
them.
There are pros and cons for
each format. We have all heard the arguments and you don’t need to hear them
again. The bottom line is that an ebook is just another format. As I read the
other day…”Escalators didn’t make stairs
obsolete!”
There are many books just not
suited to an ebook format and some just as good in both
formats.
If you want to try an eBook I
would suggest not buying a Kindle. The reason I say this is that you can only
buy from Amazon with a Kindle, and they have very few Australian books
available. With almost any other device, tablet, or eReader you can buy your
ebooks from any source including Amazon.
At Thesaurus we have gone into
partnership with “Readcloud”. “Readcloud” is an independent Australian software
company that provides an ebook solution to Australian Independent Bookshops.
This allows you to support your local bookshop even if you read your books on an
eReader.
Thesaurus Bookshop is committed to offering its customers any book
they want, in any format they want. Our eBookstore offers over 100,000 eBooks
from a range of global and Australian publishers including Random House,
Hachette, HarperCollins, Penguin, Allen & Unwin, John Wiley & Sons, Text
Publishing, Scholastic, Bloomsbury, Scribe Publications, Walker Books, Murdoch
Books, Hardie Grant, Health Press, UQP, SPUNC and Black Inc. with many more
publishers coming on board.
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