Sent to me by Rita Toews, founder of Read an E-book Week—she has lobbied the Canadian government, with fantastic results: Great news! By virtue of an Order by the 41st Parliament of Canada, First Session, Motion M-293 was passed declaring the month of March Read an E-Book Month! The Order reads: That, in the opinion of the House, the government should: (a) recognize that the ePublishing industry has created economic opportunities for entrepreneurs, authors, publishers and e-reader manufacturers; (b) recognize that e-books present significant benefits for seniors and children; (c) recognize that e-books are an environmentally-friendly alternative to books; (d) declare the...

And now, may I present the lucky winners of the Read an E-Book Week 2011 Win an E Ink Watch promotion!  The winners are: Glory H from Dubuque, IA; and Paul Milke from Uxbridge, MA! E Ink has been notified, and the watches will be winging their way to you guys! Everyone join me in Congratulations to our winners! The watch contest did well! Most interestingly, I've gotten some very interesting responses for the write-in portion of the contest, asking what people would like to see in the sequel to Verdant Skies. I plan to respond to many of...

Yes, Rita Toews has obtained a Nook, donated by the E-Ink Corporation, that Read an E-Book Week would like to put in a lucky person's hands! Just go to REBW's contest page, send in your response to the ebook-related question, and on March 13, Rita will announce the winner of the Nook!  Details are on the contest page.  Go and enter now!...

A promotional flyer is now available for those who'd like to help support Read an E-Book Week.  The flyer, a letter-sized JPEG that reads well in color or B/W, can be downloaded and either emailed to others, or printed out and posted at your favorite book-reading hangout... a library, a Starbucks, a bookstore, a bistro, anyplace with a bulletin board (this is a non-profit cause... some BBs don't allow commercial material). The flyer can be seen in full size, and downloaded, from my website.  (And while you're there, consider entering the contest for an E-Ink watch!)...

To support and promote Read an E-Book Week, I have obtained two E-Ink watches, which I'll be giving away to two lucky winners from my site! To be entered in the drawing for the watches, Do one of two things between now and March 11, 2011: Purchase a book from my site. You can also purchase a book from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, etc, but you'll have to email me a copy of your online purchase receipt (because the retailers don't tell me who purchases my books, just that they've been purchased). Send me an email...

Read an E-Book Week is right around the corner (March 6-12, 2011), and Rita Toews is, as usual, providing great tidbits about ebooks and giving people encouragement to check ebooks out.  For instance, did you know the ebook is 40 years old this year? Yes, I had to be reminded of this one, myself... but it was in 1971 that Michael S. Hart created the first ebook, a copy of the Declaration of Independence, on a Xerox Sigma V mainframe computer.  And Rita has other great material on the site, such as: An article by the selfsame Michael S. Hart; Comments by Warren...