i.d.'ing/dating Old Pennants

[drc]

More and more people are reading books in eBook version. My 75 year old retired Cathlolic school teacher neighbor reads books on her ipad. Also, an illustrated reference book is different than a novel-- a 'look up a 1930 pennant' picture reference guide is more palatable in ebook or online format than Don Quixote would be. There is a guy who publishes and sells a lengthy and heavily illustrated guide to MLB baseball uniforms and he publishes it as an pdf file on a CD. He was asked why he doesn't do it in printed form and he replied that it would be too expensive.

I'm working on a guide to identifying the materials in antiques and vintage items (type of wood, plastic, porcelain, metal, marble, amber, leather, etc etc). As I plan on including tons of color photos-- a requirement for such a guide, really- it will have to be in some sort of ebook format.

All my other books are published in both print and ebook formats-- buyer chooses type--, and I'd say 20 percent are sold as eBook for nook or whatever. Not a majority, but a noticeable percentage.

And, for the record, I still read a novel in paper form.

[brownscollector78]

I think an ebook would be a great idea. Whoever thought of that, kudos.

[drc]

One thing is is color isn't always really necessary. Sure it would be nice if Lipset's Encyclopedia or the Standard Catalog almanac or the old encyclopedia were in color-- but it's not necessary. We all find them useful guides in their black and white. When SCD says a card has red borders, most of us here can figure out what that means-- we don't require a color chart.

A black and white picture with description of colors may not be ideal, but it's certainly serviceable for identification and reference purposes.