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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
i had a similar experience and wrote to ask why the book was not available in LIT ; the reply i got was that there distributor did not offer any other formats. i'm not sure exactly what the role of the distributor is but apparently they act as middleman between the publisher and the booksellers.
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Correct. Publishers generally do not sell direct to consumers. They aren't really set up to do so. They sell to wholesalers (distributors) who in turn sell to retailers. Really
big retailers, like Amazon or perhaps Barnes and Noble or CostCo may deal directly with publishers, but most retailers get stock from someone like Ingram or Baker and Taylor. (In the US, at least. Things will differ elsewhere.)
The question here is who Fictionwise's distributor is, and why they can't get the other formats.
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i also hope that there is not some hidden agenda to push mobipocket to the detriment of other formats...
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Since Fictionwise now owns eReader and therefore the PML format it uses, I doubt that.
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Dennis