Ebooks have forever changed the reading landscape. They offer the reader the ability to carry around an entire library in your back pocket (iphone) or satchel (ipad/kindle). Also, to connect with other readers, and with authors, too.
I loved creative writing at school. I wrote my first serialised book in my early teens to amuse my classmates in Math class. Each lesson they would get a new chapter. I've been writing on and off for almost fifty years, and been a full time author for around 12 years.