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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
I don't want to bother converting. Not my job as a customer. And calibre converted ePub usually needs some time with sigil to get something correct.
Guess i'll just read something else.
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So for Hugh Howey (the author), there goes that market that gives about 1% of a crap about his book. He's made it available at a good price, without DRM, and all you have to do is load it into Calibre, click a button and send it to your device. Less trouble by far than, say, driving to a store to buy a printed book.
But you don't care that much. That's fine! Really, I'm not being sarcastic. There's a bar that you have to get over to buy any book, and Howey's set the bar a little too high for you. Nothing wrong with that at all.
In return, for 90 days he gets to promote his book through Amazon with free days, he gets it listed on the Kindle Lending Library where people can borrow it for free (but he gets $2.48 or so for each loan), and there's the always mysterious effect on the Amazon algorithms.
He's made a business decision. Lose the 1% that won't cross the street to buy his book, in order to gain exposure to a wider audience that doesn't
have to cross the street to buy his book.
So you read something else, he sells to many other customers. It's a numbers game.
As for the movie option...hey, tell me about it. I've optioned my book five times. Howey is in a whole different ball game, though. Ridley Scott and screenwriter Steve Zaillian (Google him) are major players, the kinds of people who attract money, who can get movies made. This kind of option is a big deal indeed.