On Nov 21, 2011, at 7:53 PM, Anestis Kozakis wrote: > On 22 November 2011 13:53, Raymond E. Feist <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Nov 21, 2011, at 6:17 PM, Jason Akehurst wrote: >> >>> Hi Ray, >>> >>> I understand this is probably one of those, business questions... but do >>> you have any control over what books get published in digital format? I'm >>> slowly starting to move to kindle for "favourite" books.. ie those books >>> that I might want to read over and over while travelling.. and only your >>> newer books seem to be on the kindle bookshop... >>> >>> And as a followup (fully expecting to have a no comment or similar) are >>> there plans to publish magician and the rest to digital format sometime >>> soon... > >> Eventually everything will be in digital format. > > And a lot of it already is, as some of us and your lawyers know, > available on torrent sites.
I'm speaking of the legit epub stuff, not some text file from a bad OCR session some years ago. The thing Apple showed the world with iTunes is if you give people a cheap, legal way with a cool interface to download music, they'd use it. Sure, there are torrent sites, emule, limewire, etc. and some folks are still burning CDs or using MP3 players, and Sony, SanDisk, Samsung, etc. are making MP3 players, but there are a hell of a lot more iPods and iPhones being used. Now, in epublishing, imagine the torrent files are bad cassette tapes. It's financially not a big deal, really. It's about the same damage as what fell off trucks in print terms. Music companies were losing millions. Publishers of books are losing thousands. Best, R.E.F. ---- www.crydee.com Never attribute to malice what can satisfactorily be explained away by stupidity.
