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will my Nimble book be published as an e-book? #ebook

Yes and no.

Yes: I  upload all books published by Nimble Books to Google Book Search,  Amazon Search Inside the Book, and Amazon Upgrade.  There is a lag of 1-4 months after nominal publication date before the book actually appears in those places.  As you may know, once the Google author settlement is closed, Google will begin offering PDF downloads of “their” books.

No: my stance on e-books is that I am waiting until I can deploy my entire list (which includes many color books with high production values) to a device that can read and display near-full-size (~ 8 x 10) color PDFs.  Tech-savvy readers will be aware that the Kindle DX claims to have a native PDF reader and a low-res (150 pixel per inch) grayscale display … but at this writing, Amazon has not yet answered the $64 million question: whether there will be a way for publishers to deploy their PDFs to Kindle via the Amazon DTP system or their Mobipocket subsidiary.