Sure, the selection could be greater. Sure, the Kindle could be my dream device (said dream device being able to wash dishes). Sure, there’s going to be a next, better thing in a year or two.

But when it gets down to brass tacks (sorry, in London, it’s all brass tacks here!), my goal is to get lost in a story. The Kindle (or my laptop or any device) doesn’t stop me from losing myself in the words. To me, it’s all about transporting from this plane to the story plane. I don’t care about the medium; I just want to fall into the book.

And I love those publishers who have made it a priority to allow me to do this however, whenever I want.

As for great interest, while I still hold my previously stated reservations about the Kindle (single purpose device, etc), going out in public and using the device sparks conversation (and, interestingly, there is a lot of consumer awareness of the product). It’s a conversation I’m happy to have, and me being me, I throw the idea of other readers, including the Sony eReader, into the discussion. I’m very much again market monopolies.

As for the lying (g), oh yeah, I totally make stuff up. I’m not really 5′5″.

It’s a long time away from giving away ebooks at conferences, particularly since the devices don’t have the requisite capability for receiving ebooks in the wild without connecting to a souce for downloading. Plus, well, market saturation for readers is still several generations away.

Who knew? Not me, that’s for sure. I thought cover prices went up because of increasing prices for paper and such.

Make of that information what you will.

As to redistributing books at check-in at the airline counter — why, yes, I watched a fellow author do exactly that on the way home from said RWA National conference.

Gosh, how will they give away copies of ebooks at National? (However they do it, it will be cheaper to get them home, that’s for sure. lol.)