Read an eBook Week

This is National Read an eBook Week across the U.S. There are many options for finding eBooks these days, including Amazon, Nook, Kobo, iBookstore, Smashwords, and many more. Several of these are having sales in honor this week's celebrations, such as Untreed Reads, a publisher that has been supportive of crime fiction, both long and short forms. (For Smashwords' discounts, go here.)

Untreed Reads is offering all titles in their store for 30% through March 8, including Mystery, Suspense and Thriller titles. Jack Bates, Nigel Bird, Paul D. Brazill, Michael Bracken, Jan Christensen, Barb Goffman, and Stephen D. Rogers have short stories and collections available at discount during this sale, and there are also novel-length works by Kaye George, Neil Plakcy, Gillian Roberts, and many more. The bargain offerings also include Grimm Tales, an anthology edited by John Kenyon, in which I was honored to have a story, as well as one of my standalone shorts, "Ill-Gotten Games."

Print still rules, but according to a Pew Research report, one in three Americans said they read at least one eBook in 2013. More people are reading eBooks via their smartphones and on laptops and tablets, with 50% of Americans now owning a dedicated handheld device, i.e., a tablet computer like an iPad, or an e-reader such as a Kindle or Nook, with many more reading books on their smartphones. I see a lot of folks reading ebooks on the D.C. Metro these days, although there are plenty of print books on display, too. More options = more readers.