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Hello! How are you? Looking forward to the Easter break? We certainly are - and if someone doesn't buy Jill an egg from [http://www.montezumas.co.uk Montezuma's] this year, her nearest and dearest are going to be very, very sorry. We have been busy fund-raising for Sport Relief, gadding about in London meeting publicists and going to birthday parties, and helping our heirs to plan gap year expeditions to Borneo - interestingly, we've also read two gap year novels recently, [[In the Trees by Pauline Fisk]] and [[The Island by Sarah Singleton]]. They're very different books, but they're both great.
We keep thinking about ebooks. Do you read them? Do you like them? What do you think of the production values? Ease of use? Will you buy a Kindle, do you think? An iPad? Can iTunes do wonders for ebooks? We feel rather conflicted. It's not that we're Luddites - we love technology, and the sexier it is the better. But we're also sappy old romantics who don't just love ''reading '' books. We love the way they look, and feel, and smell. It'll be a wrench if we do have to say goodbye to print. And what to do about ebooks on our site? Do we rush in and get ahead of the game and start adding ebook sections to our reviews? Do we link to ebooks through our affiliates? Or do we wait and see what happens after the pricing politics and format dominance issues have worked themselves through?
Or we could just settle down with a good book and forget all that nonsense, which is probably what we'll do!