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Am so incredibly tired of being enraged and incensed by the circular logic of companies who attempt to defend their actions or lack thereof.
So, um, we like, kinda told three people that there were digital copies of our books available, and um, so 13,000 copies were purchased, but we totally don't think that this form of commerce that we have barely researched developed, participated in, or announced, is going to work out. Geeks and nerds are icky gross, and only they read on computer thingys, so we are so *not* about to distribute digital texts because no one (and by that we like so mean not enough people) want them.
What Publishing houses should say is this:
1. We don't like the lack of control of content inherent in a digital copy of our work.
2. We lack the infrastructure to adapt to new markets and trends.
3. We don't like digital text format, so we're not going to give it to you. F88k off, or rather go buy a nice big passel of paper with our data printed on it.
If one representative from a publishing house admitted that, I would feel very proud of them. Would still throw a rock through their window, but it would be a very proud rock.
;-)
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