Toriano Porter’s The Pride of Park Avenue Now Available as E-book on Amazon’s Kindle
Author embraces new reader technology after being in denial about its worth
St. Louis, MO (January 2, 2011)--Welcome to a world where old school reading habits meets new-school technology. After a reader suggested to Toriano Porter that the author make his first published book, The Pride of Park Avenue, available as an e-book, Porter took the advice in stride. The first-time scribe tucked the information in his memory bank before he realized a prime opportunity to attract new readers.
Porter is a throw-back; he is a reader who prefers a newspaper in his face, a work of literature in his hands, a phone conversation as opposed to a text or email. The thought of reading a book in digital format was a foreign concept to him.
Fortunately for book enthusiasts, Porter listened to his readers’ advice and adapted 21st century literature by taking advantage of the technology available to authors. He has released a digital copy of The Pride of Park Avenue http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Park-Avenue-ebook/dp/B004HIM7SO/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2 on Amazon’s Kindle e-book reading device. The move is the first in a series of steps to make The Pride of Park Avenue readily available in digital format.
“I had a young lady ask me a few days after she read my book if I had the book in e-book format,” Porter said of his decision to expand to the digital market. “I told her I thought that was a wonderful idea. I hadn’t even entertained the thought of printing my book as an e-book, but with the way readers’ appetites are changing for how they want their books, I had to make it happen.”
The e-book edition of The Pride of Park Avenue http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Park-Avenue-ebook/dp/B004HIM7SO/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2 is available with the proper software on PCs and Macs, as well as iPads, and on iPhone, Android and Blackberry smart phones that carry the Kindle application.
“With all of the technology out there with the different e-book reader devices and the smart phones, readers are becoming more particular on how and when they want their books,” Porter said. “Of course, most readers still want the paperback or hardback edition, but a growing segment of readers are also open to e-books. It’s a growing trend that’s not going anywhere anytime soon. “
The Pride of Park Avenue, a collection of emotionally charged personal essays, character-driven short stories and tragedy-filled poetry, is also available in paperback at www.prideofparkavenue.com, www.authorhouse.com (http://www.authorhouse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000233616) and www.amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Park-Avenue-Toriano-Porter/dp/1438913478/ref=tmm_pap_title_0).
About the Book
Combining cool, reflective narrative, free-flowing prose and authentic character dialogue, The Pride of Park Avenue is a collection of emotionally charged personal essays about life, loss and pain, character-driven flash fiction passages of love and betrayal, action-helmed coming-of-age short stories centered on the pursuit of the American Dream, painstaking, tragedy-filled poetry and insanely written gonzo blog entries that form one of the more daring works of the last quarter century.
About the Author
From the depths of Park Avenue in South Saint Louis, Missouri emerges one of the quintessential literary voices of the 21st century. The Pride of Park Avenue is Toriano L. Porter's first published book. He is a former All-Conference football player at both Eureka High School in Eureka, Missouri and Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg and a former minor league football All-American for the St. Louis Bulldogs. The assistant sports editor at the Examiner newspaper in Independence, Missouri, his work has appeared in publications such as the St. Louis American, St. Louis Evening Whirl, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Riverfront Times, The Kansas City Pitch, inBox Magazine, Playback STL Magazine, Central News Magazine, ENVY Magazine in Kansas City, www.stlhiphop.com and the Houston Press.
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