This is an interesting time to be a writer/publisher/reader. In ten years, this will have largely shaken itself out and there will be a standard way to get your ebooks, but right now it's more like the wild west.
-- Jonathan Sherwood Sr. Science & Technology Press Officer University of Rochester 585-273-4726 On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:30 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I blogged about this this morning. The paperback of my novel STEAL > ACROSS THE SKY is being released tomorrow -- but will NOT be available thru > Amazon. I am not happy. > Nancy > > > In a message dated 2/1/2010 8:23:48 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Have you guys been following the tousle between Amazon and MacMillan? > The one in which all of MacMillan's titles were removed from > availability on Amazon? > The release of the iPad has helped propel the re-vamping of the ebook > business model away from the traditional paper book deal in which a > bookseller can charge any price they'd like for a title. Now Amazon is > being forced into a more eBay-like model in which they get a > percentage of the sale, but the publisher controls the price. > Apparently Google is coming out with their own ebook reader and own > Google Editions store, so it remains to be seen what happens to book > prices then. > Here's an interesting discussion of it from a British source: > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/01/amazon-macmillan-ebooks-apple > > Alicia > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
