Is there a point to releasing them at this point. The pirated versions are top notch. I think authors underestimate how well these pirates pull stuff off.
Robert Jordan's widow wanted to wait 1 YEAR from the hardcover release of his latest wheel of time novel. Brandon Sanderson, the author finishing the books talked her down to 6 months I believe.
The first OCRed copy landed on Bittorrent about 2 weeks after the hardback came out. 2 days before the eBook came out, the proofread copy was up to version 5.0. Too little, too late at that point.
If you own an eReader, you are NOT going to buy a paper book just cause an author is being stubborn. But you will get pissed off when it's not available and seek other means.
As for these being "Kid's books" and kids don't own eReaders. My son's favorite books are the Magic Treehouse books. They are intended for a younger audience than Harry Potter and the author has released them as eBooks, in hardback, paperback and as audiobooks. I bought a dozen of them on my Kindle and my son read them.
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