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So finally after I finished writing and the definition of what I call editing, and now a real editor is taking care of my grammaric and vocabulary mess which I call a novel, I need to think on how I want to publish it.
With an E Book, it will be much cheaper and I don't even need publishing houses or litarery agents, but then again it will be much cheaper to buy (and for some people, much easier to hack...if anyone does that) and I don't know if a lot of people are actually reading E books.
With a normal book, it will be really expensive and hard to publish it (first book after all...) but the result might be better than with an E book.

Any opinions?

IMO I prefer normal books, hard copies. If I have the eBook on, say, a USB then I'd still have to find a computer to plug it in.

I prefer books. Can read anywhere anytime.

I also go with a physical book.

If you google it I think you will find that a very high majority of people prefer to read hard copies. Also, if you go the ebook way you have to know that at some point it is going to be torrented and  everyone is just going to download it for free like they do with music these days.  Of course in the end you do have to weigh cost, if it were me and I had enough money to go the hard copy route I think I would lean that direction.

like what the others said, a physical book is just epictastically better than ebook - i definitely dont like reading books on the computer, its just weird and not to mention i get distracted easily

Thanks for the replies everyone. I was going with hard copies from the start, but my uncle kept bugging me on Ebooks...

Why don't you release a chapter of it in pdf and spread it around for free for better publicity. Of course with a disclaimer on the end saying "Please buy my book you download cheap-wad  >:( "

Or selling it in both pdf and hardbook would do the same. But of course they would probably torrent your pdf. But that just makes you more famous and if ever, your next novel would be easier to sell in hardcopy.

My cousin is actually a Manager for a local band. And she shared their music via Limewire just for publicity. I'm not sure if shes still doing it. Oh and for the Filipinos the name of the band is Readlead65...(I wan't my incentives nee-san!!!  )

hakkaino7 wrote: Why don't you release a chapter of it in pdf and spread it around for free for better publicity. Of course with a disclaimer on the end saying "Please buy my book you download cheap-wad  "

Or selling it in both pdf and hardbook would do the same. But of course they would probably torrent your pdf. But that just makes you more famous and if ever, your next novel would be easier to sell in hardcopy.

I thought about it, but wouldn't it hurt the rights of the publishing house? It publishes my novel but then I go to the internet and sells it as well only for my profit. sounds a bit wrong. When I get to that stage I'll ask them if they agree to spread the 1 (maybe also 2) online for better publicity, but now I still need to wait for the editing to finish (It would be the longest 3 months of my life  )

Kor wrote:

hakkaino7 wrote: Why don't you release a chapter of it in pdf and spread it around for free for better publicity. Of course with a disclaimer on the end saying "Please buy my book you download cheap-wad  "

Or selling it in both pdf and hardbook would do the same. But of course they would probably torrent your pdf. But that just makes you more famous and if ever, your next novel would be easier to sell in hardcopy.

I thought about it, but wouldn't it hurt the rights of the publishing house? It publishes my novel but then I go to the internet and sells it as well only for my profit. sounds a bit wrong. When I get to that stage I'll ask them if they agree to spread the 1 (maybe also 2) online for better publicity, but now I still need to wait for the editing to finish (It would be the longest 3 months of my life  )

I'm not familiar with "book rights" but I'm pretty sure you'll have more right than them since it's your work after all. On the artistic point of view anyway. But on the business-y point of view, it would be the other way around.