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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
The problem isn't the authors. The authors are the good guys. I like the authors. I have to believe that the authors want me to read their books.
I want to enter into the "standard contract" with the authors, which is basically:
1. You: write good books
2. Me: read and enjoy your books, and pay you the compliment of caring about your characters and substituting, albeit briefly, the fictional reality you've lovingly crafted for my own.
The publisher, in this instance, has chosen to stand in the way of this and ridicule anyone thinking they'd be able to perform section 2 of the contract.
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Then it is up to the authors to sign with another publisher. If they want me (who is only purchasing ebooks for recreational reading) to read their books, then they had best have a heart to heart with their publisher, if that publisher is McMillan.
It doesn't matter how much of a good guy the author is ... if their books are not available in a format I can read on my Kindle, I'm not reading them. Further, if they write in a serialized format with only a few of the serial in an ebook form, then I'm not touching the entire series until such time as it is. Period.
I'm sorry if the authors lose out in this arrangement, but whether an author chooses to sign with a company that is not going to publish anything but pbooks is their problem ... I'm not going to make it mine.