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MrsPartridge · 01-02-2011, 08:05 PM

I wonder about all the free books offered on Amazon and other bookstores. People who paid a couple of hundred bucks for readers probably weren't reading free books before but now they're trying to fill their reading time with unreliable bargains.

As for DavidKitson, he's probably a great author. I've seen amazing writing that publishers just don't bother to take on. Perhaps they're not in a genre that sells lots or they're not the hot sub-genre of the day. For instance, romantic sagas aren't selling now, it's all about vampires. You can write a wonderful saga but there isn't a large enough market for publishers to print 300,000 and distribute.

So for these excellent niche novels, we should be able to see digital only versions from reputable publishers. Carina Press seems to be a digital website from Harlequin and it offers the really hard to find sub-genres like "urban fantasy" and "shifters".

01-02-2011, 08:05 PM	#39
MrsPartridge Member Posts: 10 Karma: 35244 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Sony 650	I wonder about all the free books offered on Amazon and other bookstores. People who paid a couple of hundred bucks for readers probably weren't reading free books before but now they're trying to fill their reading time with unreliable bargains. As for DavidKitson, he's probably a great author. I've seen amazing writing that publishers just don't bother to take on. Perhaps they're not in a genre that sells lots or they're not the hot sub-genre of the day. For instance, romantic sagas aren't selling now, it's all about vampires. You can write a wonderful saga but there isn't a large enough market for publishers to print 300,000 and distribute. So for these excellent niche novels, we should be able to see digital only versions from reputable publishers. Carina Press seems to be a digital website from Harlequin and it offers the really hard to find sub-genres like "urban fantasy" and "shifters".