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By Rita Toews

Rita Toews is founder of Read an E-Book Week. Meanwhile I hope that the White House will wise up and heed suggestions to recognize the week officially. If Obama wants to promote both literacy and tech, what better way to do this? – D.R.

imageimage Read an E-Book Week is over for 2009, and it was a roaring success! People are obviously interested in all aspects of e-books and electronic reading material. Web traffic came from the four corners of the globe, including: Korea, England, Russia, U.S.A., France, Spain, Argentina, Iceland, Mexico, Portugal, Egypt, China, India, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates – to name a few. 

Several schools participated by having someone in the library to show students how to download an e-book, one author sat in a coffee shop for two afternoons with a sign – "Ask Me About E-Books", municipal libraries had notices on their websites, and mention of the week even appeared in newspapers and even on the Forbes.com website!

There is a huge list of publishers, authors and companies to thank—see the Partners page of the website. 

It was great fun putting this event together.  Next year Steve Jordan and I hope to make the event even grander.  This year I had to increase traffic allowance on the website twice.  Let’s make it an even greater upgrade next year. 

Related: A first? A SERIOUS look at local e-book writers—for Read an E-Book Week.

 
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