I recently got a note from Random House, asking if I wanted to agree to have a 1988 novel of mine republished by them as an e-book. I was a little shocked that they're getting down to this level, since the book was hardly a mega-monster best seller. I think it sold about 1500 copies. Seems to suggest that a lot of out-of-print books may be reappearing as e-books. I wonder if publishers are going to find it tough to compete with used book sellers in this arena. The current used price for my old novel seems to be 35 cents.
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