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neilmarr · 09-14-2010, 01:59 PM

Just a wee update folks (and sure the offer to MR friends is still open):

All new-release BB titles are now available in PDF, ePub and Mobi, and we're about half way through converting the rest of the catalogue. My tech partner, Tony Szmuk in Canada, is doing it carefully, title-by-title, rather than using an auto converter. It takes longer, but the result is superb.

We now have official registration in the US (after a long, tedious and expensive legal journey). It will be rubber-stamped next week and we can start dealing direct with all the major new US-based ebook stores and uploading our own well-formatted files rather than working through an auto-conversion third-party for US retail.

Not that it affects ebooks much, but the US office is staffed and we now have agency representation in the US and Spanish/English representation in Latin America for treebooks.

A fully staffed BeWrite Books bureau opens in Australia in October/Nov (headed editorially by old friend and colleague, Meredith Whitford, ex of Jacobyte Books) and we signed a print deal in August for print and distribution in Australia, New Zealand and other Pacific Rim Counties. That'll make a huge difference to paperbacks, but ebooks again won't really benefit ... any further than the fact that there are no geographical restrictions on ebooks from our own site and there is strictly no DRM, so Australian ebook reading folks can help themselves without hassle.

Already this year, our amazing Chinese agent has placed six BB titles with major publishers for mass-run paperback print on the mainland, and we had more than seventy BB titles exclusively represented (treebook and ebook) at last month's massive Beijing International Book Fair. Waiting with fingers crossed for the result.

All's tickling along nicely ... but the 17x7 working week is taking its toll. Time for a weekend off, methinks --- if only!

Cheers chaps and chappettes. Neil

PS: Browsing through this thread just now brought a tear stinging to my eye when I read our late, well-loved friend Patricia's kind posts. What a lovely lass she was. N

09-14-2010, 01:59 PM	#35
neilmarr neilmarr Posts: 7,215 Karma: 6000059 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Monaco-Menton, France Device: sony	Just a wee update folks (and sure the offer to MR friends is still open): All new-release BB titles are now available in PDF, ePub and Mobi, and we're about half way through converting the rest of the catalogue. My tech partner, Tony Szmuk in Canada, is doing it carefully, title-by-title, rather than using an auto converter. It takes longer, but the result is superb. We now have official registration in the US (after a long, tedious and expensive legal journey). It will be rubber-stamped next week and we can start dealing direct with all the major new US-based ebook stores and uploading our own well-formatted files rather than working through an auto-conversion third-party for US retail. Not that it affects ebooks much, but the US office is staffed and we now have agency representation in the US and Spanish/English representation in Latin America for treebooks. A fully staffed BeWrite Books bureau opens in Australia in October/Nov (headed editorially by old friend and colleague, Meredith Whitford, ex of Jacobyte Books) and we signed a print deal in August for print and distribution in Australia, New Zealand and other Pacific Rim Counties. That'll make a huge difference to paperbacks, but ebooks again won't really benefit ... any further than the fact that there are no geographical restrictions on ebooks from our own site and there is strictly no DRM, so Australian ebook reading folks can help themselves without hassle. Already this year, our amazing Chinese agent has placed six BB titles with major publishers for mass-run paperback print on the mainland, and we had more than seventy BB titles exclusively represented (treebook and ebook) at last month's massive Beijing International Book Fair. Waiting with fingers crossed for the result. All's tickling along nicely ... but the 17x7 working week is taking its toll. Time for a weekend off, methinks --- if only! Cheers chaps and chappettes. Neil PS: Browsing through this thread just now brought a tear stinging to my eye when I read our late, well-loved friend Patricia's kind posts. What a lovely lass she was. N Attached Thumbnails Attached Images Last edited by neilmarr; 09-14-2010 at 02:02 PM.