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Originally Posted by foreverjuly
I feel your pain, Kurt. It's a shame so many publishers are dithering over ebooks. Yes, some are fighting over rights but some don't seem to have any inclination. I'm sure they could crank out the Harry Potter books tomorrow if they wanted to. Until then we'll just have to venture out and keep finding new stuff!
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Part of the problem is the authors of older books are not trusting the editors/publishers with their works. Take Stephen R. Donaldson for example. Lots of us would love to see the more Chronicles of Thomas Covenant but at the moment the author will not negotiate the rights to the ebooks. Why? Because of the botched job of the GAP series (lots of editing errors). As the author said on his website, its easier to make an ebook from a word document as is the case for modern books -> ebooks, but for older stuff like GAP and Covenant series, going from manuscript to ebook requires good editing.
The good news that the publishers are finally doing better. I've personally noticed less errors. And Stephen R. Donaldson said that the publishers of the GAP series are redoing/fixing the ebooks. If they do a good job, he will negotiate the Covenant series.
There are like a hundred books id love to see done in ebook, but its the publishers that need to get their stuff together, not really the authors.