E-Refuseniks

neilmarr · 10-29-2009, 11:56 AM

I've been campaigning for and hoping for ebooks that make sense in terms of their price for the past decade. My own small publishing house offers them at 10% of the price of our paperbacks and they make money ... even though authors are on a 40% royalty rather than hard copy 10% with us.

We are now seeing ebook reading as a possibility with all the new ereaders on the market, thanks to folks like us.

But retailers are putting a spoke in ... their prices are potty!!!

I've already (against the grain) bought ebooks that cost more than their harback equivalents. But enough is enough ... when over the past week I can find nobody selling Margaret Atwood's *Year of the Flood* in ebook at anything less than double the available hardback price, I refuse to go there. I refuse to encourage such greed by becoming a customer. I refuse to embrace the counter-revolution.

We should boycot retailers who play this game. We should NOT buy their ebooks. We should say: "Sod off -- this is not what the ebook ideal is about!"

Neil

10-29-2009, 11:56 AM	#1
neilmarr neilmarr Posts: 455 Karma: 921 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Monaco-Menton, France Device: sony	E-Refuseniks I've been campaigning for and hoping for ebooks that make sense in terms of their price for the past decade. My own small publishing house offers them at 10% of the price of our paperbacks and they make money ... even though authors are on a 40% royalty rather than hard copy 10% with us. We are now seeing ebook reading as a possibility with all the new ereaders on the market, thanks to folks like us. But retailers are putting a spoke in ... their prices are potty!!! I've already (against the grain) bought ebooks that cost more than their harback equivalents. But enough is enough ... when over the past week I can find nobody selling Margaret Atwood's Year of the Flood in ebook at anything less than double the available hardback price, I refuse to go there. I refuse to encourage such greed by becoming a customer. I refuse to embrace the counter-revolution. We should boycot retailers who play this game. We should NOT buy their ebooks. We should say: "Sod off -- this is not what the ebook ideal is about!" Neil __________________ Visit www.bewrite.net for new fiction (£1, $2.00, E1.50 per download). Ebooks (about 120 titles) in PDF only until a range of new formats are made avbailable in 2010.

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