Mark Twain in the Electronic Age

Posted By Cliff Tuttle | November 20, 2010

No. 529

I read reports that the publisher of the “doorstop” Autobiography of Mark Twain, Part 1 (over 300 pages and just getting started) has so greatly (ten times) exceeded the publisher’s initial projections of initial hardcover sales that it cannot print and ship copies fast enough using its full capacity around the clock.  The Publisher has even hired extra-large trucks.

Good news for them.  But in case you’d like to read this century-in-the-making publication, don’t – repeat don’t — buy and cart around the hefty book.  This is the electronic age.  Amazon’s Audible.com will sell you the audio version or, if you prefer to use your eyes, Amazon will sell you the Kindle version.

There’s never a shortage of copies and delivery is instantaneous. The Kindle version costs about one-third the hardback price, too.  I bought the audio, as I usually do with long books.  It will keep me company on long walks and long tedious chores.

CLT

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