I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales information and the advent of the internet, that ultimately this change in our working environment will be a change for the better.

I don't choose between my house phone and my mobile. I don't choose between my laptop and my notebook. And I don't intend to choose between my e-reader and my bookshelf.

This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press.

Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.

We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.

For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it.

I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!