Indie Publishers, E-Books, and Paper

I've been submitting THE VASE to some Indie Publishers because, mostly, they are the ones who don't require an agent. I'm hesitant, however, to submit to those publishers who only do E-Books. I'm old school, like I've mentioned before, and I still have that dream of seeing my book in print. You know, the kind of print that you can hold in your hand, and turn paper pages.

I don't doubt that the future of publishing is electronic. I still remember that Star Trek pilot episode, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" when Gary Mitchell, played by Gary Lockwood, was recovering from that psychic shock, and he was reading at super fast speeds. Well, the books he read were on a computer monitor. Even back in 1966, Star Trek had it right about the future of books on a computer screen.

Yet I also remember another Star Trek episode, the one called "Court Martial" where some old school lawyer had filled Captain Kirk's quarters with old-fashioned style books. And he raved about his preference of them over computers. Yes, as right as Star Trek was about books being on monitors, they also allowed for the still-in-existence old-fashioned paper-bound books.

I hope they got that right, too. Like I said, I don't doubt the future of publishing is electronic, but I hope, like Star Trek portrayed, that the good old-fashioned paper bound books don't go the way of the dinosaur.