I felt guilty. Here I was making the best-seller lists for e-books, yet I kept reading just print books. Most of my e-books were also in print. But was I still a traitor to my fans who read me in E instead? I remembered when my wife Betty and I had closed our Choose and Cut Christmas tree farm, then promptly bought a fake tree. So why did I continue to be an e-traitor?  First was the complexity of buying and downloading books in what seemed to be dozens of different formats. Next was battery life. When...

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Moderator's note: Darrell Bain, one of the best-selling authors of the e-book world and winner of two Eppies, is our newest contributor. See his bio at the end. His sci-fi novel Savage Survival is an e-book, trade paperback and hardback. Welcome, Darrell! - David Rothman Ten years ago, in 1997, my budding hopes of becoming a successful author came crashing down in ruins as I learned that the so-called agent I had been dealing with for six years was an out and out crook. Not only had all the manuscripts I submitted to the agent not been sent...

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