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Originally Posted by TheRealBillc
I think you need to more directly address their fears. They are concerned about pirated e-books, so you should mention that when a consumer looks for a book published by them on the internet, that their copy should appear at the top of a search result above any other source. Many people look at the internet as a place to find things and do not expect that what they may be doing has any legal issues attached, they just want to read the book when they find it, and won't always question if the source is legit. You should also mention that the e-book should be published at the same time as the p-book because timely legal availability will forstall some pirated copy sales. They should even understand that some p-sales are lost to library copies, sharing, and street book sales missing covers, so some level of e-book "shrinkage" has to be acceptable too. I know this last one may be a tough sell, but at least you will be shaping the issue, not their doom and gloom anti-e department.
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It would be very nice to put in there, but I'm thinking that it should not be a part of the original letter, but more as an attachment. The whole "Why should you as a publisher provide ebooks" should be an attachment to the original letter where we can go into the depths of these issues.
Please help me phrase this issue in the letter.