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Originally Posted by SameOldStory
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True...I didn't want to rub anyone the wrong way
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What cuts the legs out from under that effort, for me, is the publishers price. In the past, the publishing company made most of its profit from the hardback book. In general, that's ok with me. If you really want the book enough to pay $25, fine.
"Yeah maybe, but I imagine you would be the minority, willing to wait out a year, and still remember why you wanted to read it in the first place."
Ebooks present new challenges. And one will be how to get my attention on an ebook website. There is so much I like to read. And so much that will make me click away in a flash.
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I guess in the end it will all come down to Cover design?
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Sorry if I misled you. I used to wait a year and hope that I would recall what books I wanted to buy. But if it wasn't one by an author that I liked, I usually forgot about it.
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Yeap but, unless your following the Author around...
My point is if it wasn't for the Author getting published in the first place and the Advertising which goes along with it people would not have known about them, or brought their books for them to get as big as they have become and therefore have the balls to dump their publishers...
Do you think the likes of J.K Rowling or a Dan Brown would be where they are today if they simply unloaded their little Harry Potter, or Da Vinci Code eBook onto Amazon? without the marketing juggernaut that went with it????