Thread: Dorchester Publishing Going All Digital
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Old 09-12-2010, 05:27 PM   #6
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Dorchester let two of their editors go. Leah Hultenschmidt was let go at the same time as Dan D'Auria. I think that left just one editor in house.

And Harlequin is light years ahead of Dorchester when it comes to ebooks. I've only purchased ebooks by two or three Dorchester authors, and for a long time I had a hard time finding their ebooks anywhere other than Amazon. Their ebooks didn't show up in the Sony store until months after the print and Kindle versions were released. It's gotten better in the past year, with their ebooks available at more places now. But I don't think they're as widely available as Harlequin.

And as far as I can tell, Dorchester doesn't sell ebooks directly to the public. They have the infrastructure in place for selling print books directly to the public, but they haven't taken advantage of that to sell ebooks from their own site. Their decision to go digital first seemed bizarre to me; from what I've seen, they were slow to embrace ebooks and still have a lot of catching up to do.
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