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Originally Posted by ficbot
I would strongly encourage authors in your position to just make sure they don't re-invent the wheel. We don't need two dozen authors each starting up different ventures right now---I think authors would be better served by congregating together in one or two places and having strength in numbers. I think customers need a very clear destination where they can go to get many books.
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Amen to that! So far,
Backlist Ebooks is the only venture of its kind that I know of, IOW the only dedicated showcase of author-published out-of-print titles that isn't also a sales venue (we provide links to the sales venues).
A Writer's Work and
Book View Cafe are the other two entities that were on the panel at Ninc. They're terrific, visionary ventures, but different from us in that they perform some e-publishing functions and sell books right off the sites.
So far, Backlist Ebooks has 36 authors of all genres (we just snagged our first horror author, Kevin J. Anderson), with a bunch more in the pipeline and new author queries every day. If you'd told me just a month ago that it would take off with such velocity, I wouldn't have believed you.
Oh, and it's worth noting that there was much articulate anti-DRM noise during the NINC conference, not just from Joe Konrath, but from several savvy inudstry professionals.
Pat