I have just opened my bookstore, "Ebata-san's Bookstore".

The writing request I received here took a very different direction and landed in an unexpected place.

Well, I think I got lucky with this one.

If I hadn't had this opportunity, I wouldn't have had the chance to research and try "how to e-publish".

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To be honest, I can hardly say that I know how to "do e-publishing" yet.

The reason why I chose this e-book download site is because I have purchased many books (technical e-books) from that site in the past.

What's more, I liked the ease with which I could just upload the PDF without being bound by rules about page numbers and appendices, which I have no interest in.

To begin with, I am not interested in bookbinding at all. I even take off the cover and lose it while reading a book.

However, the e-book download site I chose this time instructed me to create a "cover". So, I appropriated an illustration I had made myself in the past and made it appropriately.

It would be nice to be able to publish electronically from my own website, but I was disappointed when I saw the "payment system fees" before, so I'm not going to bother with this.

Also. I'm not interested in increasing the amount of books in my collection either -- it would only make my house smaller.

Nevertheless, paper books are still superior to e-books in the following two ways.

(1) You can find the book you want in an instant, just by looking at the bookshelf.

(2) You can resume reading the next day even if you submerge it in the bathtub.

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What makes Ebata's Bookstore different from other bookstores is that

"Books by me, for me, by me"

In other words, 'I can write what I want without concern for any organization (publishing company, etc.).