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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Exclusive would be OK if Amazon offered ePub with Adept DRM (when DRM has to be applied). Then we'd still be able to buy in the format we want without having to jump through hoops to get it into the format we want. Once KF8 is out, I'm thinking that until we get the DRM broken and the format figured out so it can be converted from, that may be it for purchases from Amazon. So these exclusive deals will be even worse. I really don't know how KF8 will work if one doesn't have a Kindle and uses an older Kindle4PC. Will we be forced to upgrade? Will we get a choice of what format we want until KF8 is dealt with? I don't think anybody knows at present.
But if you are selling a series in whatever formats and it's selling, don't go and screw the series up by dropping any of the formats you sell in. That's just making you be an a$$ and makes you look bad. I wanted to try his Jack Daniels series, but because of the Amazon deal, I won't because I don't buy eBooks from Amazon.
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You're not missing that much in the Jack Daniels series. It's an okay series until ... book 3 or 4 when it turns to gross horror rather than detective/plot/mystery and became unreadable. Frankly, I found his "the List" more entertaining than any of the Jack Daniels series, although it was a bit overdone toward the end.
For an excellent female protag series look up Carol O'Connell (her stand alone Judas Child is one of the most engrossing thrillers I've ever read.) Linda Fairstein is another writer with a good female protag. I don't think you'll be disappointed in either of those writers and the writing and series is much more consistent than the aforementioned series. Konrath's true love appears to be hellacious horror, bizarre horror and bizarre, and the horror installed itself in a series that did not start out to be horror. I have not read past the one book that was filled with horror elements.
FWIW.