iTomes

I have to admit that I don’t like reading books on ebook readers. Give me an old fashioned hunk of paper in my hands any day. I truly believe that printed books will never go out of style. I consider the books crammed onto the shelves of our many bookcases in our house to be just as beautiful as the art we have hanging on the walls. “A home without books is like a body without a soul,” as old Cicero said. (When that Roman philosopher lived almost two thousand years ago his “books” would have been scrolls and he would have kept them in buckets on the floor.)

That said, I think iTunes is amazing because it can make buying different versions of an author’s books so much easier. And it allows people from all over the world to have access to those works. The Greek version of my novel Sons of Zeus (ΟΙ ΓΙΟΙ ΤΟΥ ΔΙA) came out last week, and Greek readers in America (or Europe or wherever) can buy it right now…instantaneously! At this point my iTunes catalog has three of the eight translations of my book The Wisdom of the Shire available (Spanish, Portuguese and Italian), as well my first novella and three of my unabridged audiobook recordings. You can even get the prequel short story for my epic The Warrior Trilogy. If you like to read books on the go on your iPad or iPhone, check them out.