I recently contacted Langtail Press to compliment them on the quality of their ebooks and to inquire about adding titles now available ONLY in pbook format:
My email:
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First off, let me thank you for bringing back into print AND ebook format these wonderful titles. I think I’ve bought your entire current inventory to read on my Kindle. They are very well formatted and proof-read – a welcome surprise in today’s ebook market! Keep it up, please!
I note that many of your authors have titles being currently published in paperback format only by Rue Morgue Press – which has stridently opposed creating ebook versions of their inventory, and which has publicly denounced Amazon’s selling practices. Is there any possibility that your press could partner with Rue Morgue and produce the ebook versions of titles currently held ONLY by Rue Morgue? These include works by John Dickson Carr, Gladys Mitchell, Sheila Pim, Manning Coles, and many others. I realize that negotiating for electronic publishing rights is currently a minefield, but such an endeavor would bring these wonderful Golden Age classics to an even wider readership
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Their response:
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Thank you for your email and I am glad you like what we are doing. Your sentiments exactly match mine. I am in the process of trying to get more titles to make available, and where the physical rights are already taken try just for the ebook rights. Please bear with me and I hope to be able to produce some more material for you.
Regards
James Prichard
The Langtail Press
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I hope Mr. Prichard is successful in negotiating ebook publication rights for mysteries now published by companies that are reluctant/refuse to produce ebook editions (Rue Morgue, Felony & Mayhem, Crippen & Landru among others). Poisoned Pen Press has begun offering ebook editions of some of their titles on Amazon.