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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Most of the highly sought after ones go straight to the speculators on preorder, and they have them on sale more or less on publication day at twice the price. One I was interested in a few months ago was $75 for the hardback and $5 for the ebook, both straight from the publisher (in America, so the hardback would have cost at least $100 to have it posted over).
I decided to go for the ebook, but left it until I had a reading slot for it. But when I went to buy it, it wasn't there anymore. I emailed the writer and it turned out the ebook was "limited" too, and it was withdrawn from sale as soon as the hardback sold out. He said the only option now was to get the hardback on Ebay. So I bought something else instead.
This sort of thing makes no sense to me at all, unless the writers in question are the ones selling them on Ebay?
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a limited ebook? *facepalm* maybe i'm just silly but why bother writing if you don't want anyone getting their hands on your stuff to read it?
i just got back from a horror convention with an armful of trade paperbacks at which i handed authors and small press pubs cash money directly for their books, including a book i had taken yet not read.
i LOVE books. i'm obsessed with books. not everyone who takes does it as a middle finger to authors and publishers. hell, i haven't read a major publishers novel in years thus i wouldnt even bother downloading their stuff. no interest in even pirating it. i do my best to support the "underground" at almost every turn.
i don't expect a pat on the back. but i do do the right thing 99% of the time. i just don't want people getting the impression that i'm sitting here with terabytes worth of pilfered ebooks because thats faaaaar from the case. for every one that i've taken i've easily bought 5-10 legitimate novels.
like i said earlier, a lot of my "takes" are books that either no legitimate ebook exists nor is the book currently in print or available from the publisher. technically that may be copyright infringement but if the publisher or author arent exercising the copyright then to me its a victimless "crime". the same argument exists when it comes to playing emulated versions of out of print video games.
in this era of ebooks there is simply no excuse for things like "out of print" to exist.
i'll drop it now because i don't want to contine to hijack the thread.