One apt analogy is the widespread use of recording tools like Pro Tools.
everynametaken Send a noteboard - 02/02/2010 08:07:22 PM
Right now a lot of good books go unpublished because some publisher wasn't willing tot take the risk with the book. With e-books publishers will be able to publish books as e-books only for little cost which will encourage them to take more chances. Paperless books have also made it much easier to self publish. There are some really good authors out there who got started by distributing free e-books and audio books on line.
E-books will increase your choices not decrease them.
There will always be paper books because people love them. There is enough room out there for both paper books and electronic books.
E-books will increase your choices not decrease them.
There will always be paper books because people love them. There is enough room out there for both paper books and electronic books.
Musicians need not spend an entire fortune paying a studio to record their music now. The widespread availability of software that could turn a computer into a recording studio in its own right has allowed bands who could not get contracts for whatever reasons to get their music out to the masses. Some of them catch on and make it and then get picked up by the major labels and some still flop but either way the availability of music has never been greater.
I can see much the same for e-authors who can't seem to get a publisher to pick them up. They can utilize the same software to create their own (hopefully edited) book and make it available. They can do this right from the home computer, no need t pay a publishers and their multiple proofreaders, cover designers, printers, typesetters, and so on.
I would love to read some shorter works by unknown authors. There just might be some really good writers out there that don't have the networking to get a contract or the contacts to get his or her name out there. With e-readers they at least have a chance.
But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety...
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
Amazon Accepts Macmillan’s Demand for Higher E-Book Prices
- 01/02/2010 04:21:35 PM
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Amazon lost me as a customer over all this *NM*
- 01/02/2010 05:52:53 PM
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Why's that?
- 01/02/2010 06:55:35 PM
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I sum it up here
- 01/02/2010 08:42:02 PM
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That's an interesting point. And I have an opposite reaction.
- 01/02/2010 08:56:16 PM
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I like that they are public - I dislike that they affect the public so directly
- 01/02/2010 08:59:41 PM
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To each his own. I come away with the opposite reaction and like Amazon even more.
- 01/02/2010 09:35:10 PM
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I think his complaint is that he feels Amazon is using public opinion to pressure suppliers.
- 01/02/2010 09:04:16 PM
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It's a good tactic. I would have done the same thing. *NM*
- 01/02/2010 09:36:31 PM
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Is it though - Amazon's stock is way down today. Seems the tactic failed *NM*
- 01/02/2010 09:53:06 PM
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Apple stocks have gone down on days after major announcements too.
- 01/02/2010 10:04:04 PM
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agreed - short term doesn't mean much *NM*
- 01/02/2010 10:08:01 PM
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Macmillan will lose out when people like myself choose to find the book elsewhere.
- 01/02/2010 06:46:10 PM
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How easy is it to find books now?
- 01/02/2010 06:53:43 PM
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Pretty easily, actually.
- 01/02/2010 07:07:11 PM
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That's excellent.
- 01/02/2010 08:19:55 PM
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Screens are good. 
- 01/02/2010 08:50:08 PM
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- 01/02/2010 08:50:08 PM
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Two words: Leather cover.
- 01/02/2010 08:54:37 PM
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True, I do remember liking the cover. It's much nicer than what comes with the Sony.
- 01/02/2010 09:02:56 PM
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This is what I have. It sounds like what you have for your Sony.
- 01/02/2010 09:39:02 PM
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Unless you like a lot of old books, or have fairly eclectic tastes, you should be all set.
- 01/02/2010 07:11:30 PM
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$12.99 to $14.99 for a fiction ebook is ridiculous. *NM*
- 01/02/2010 07:44:20 PM
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Then again, it's half the price of a print version, for essentially the same product / experience.
- 01/02/2010 07:50:29 PM
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Not really. I buy new hardcover releases at Borders for around 18 to 20.
- 02/02/2010 12:34:08 AM
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I don't know about that.
- 01/02/2010 08:21:05 PM
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People pay that sort of money for DVd and more for Blue Ray
- 01/02/2010 08:00:47 PM
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Physical copy is rather important in that case, you know... at least to me.
- 01/02/2010 08:54:05 PM
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Good for MacMillan. I'll cheer on anyone who takes a stab against e-books.
- 02/02/2010 04:00:05 AM
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Whaaa?
- 02/02/2010 04:08:50 AM
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Yes, of course.
- 02/02/2010 04:33:13 AM
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In ten years you'll have an ebook reader.
- 02/02/2010 05:34:57 AM
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I know. That's the problem. *NM*
- 02/02/2010 12:56:32 PM
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Oh, hush. Go sit in the corner and listen to your 8-track while the rest of us enjoy The Future. 
*NM*
- 02/02/2010 02:37:33 PM
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*NM*
- 02/02/2010 02:37:33 PM
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The lower prices, the increased profit, or the ecological benefit? *NM*
- 02/02/2010 05:17:13 PM
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The gradual loss of physical books. *NM*
- 02/02/2010 05:32:39 PM
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Mmm. I detect an illogical argument.
- 02/02/2010 05:35:14 PM
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It will increase the number of books available
- 02/02/2010 01:55:05 PM
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One apt analogy is the widespread use of recording tools like Pro Tools.
- 02/02/2010 08:07:22 PM
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Uh, so what you want to dictate is the medium by which people read? You have no right.
- 02/02/2010 08:01:09 PM
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Good Lord! *NM*