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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg

No. If praised, by paid identified reviewers, in mainstream newspapers and magazines, they do. This is true of the paper book, and true of the eBook -- if it exists.

Ok--that's the opposite of what you said in your original post. You said

Why is it that when I read a positive big five book review in the (horrors!) New York Times, I can generally reserve the eBook from the Brooklyn Public Library, or one of our Pennsylvania public libraries? And why is that when it's from one of the smaller or international publishers, I generally cannot?

which implies that you can't find books from smaller publishers even if they're reviewed by the New York Times. Which is it?

I guess it depends on your definition of an imprint and a publisher. Createspace functions include printing, and, in cooperation with the rest of Amazon.com, Inc., publicity, distribution, cover design, and paying royalties. Of course, CreateSpace/Amazon doesn't do all imprint/publisher functions.

I believe that those are all extra services that are paid for directly by the author. I may be mistaken, but I don't believe that's how it works when your book is accepted by a publisher. Createspace can also be used for music and movies. It's a *service* for artists to distribute their work, that also has some extra, add-on services that you can pay for. I may be mistaken, but I didn't think that was how publishers worked. Here is the page that describes how authors are paid on createspace: https://www.createspace.com/Products/Book/Royalties.jsp Notice that distribution costs extra. Is that really how publishers work???

I do miss a lot, but I knew that. It's been more than six months since the print version of Pioneer Girl hit number two on a NY Times bestseller list, and its small publisher still has not come out with an eBook. And, when they do, it sounds likely to have fancy features that won't work with eInk and in which we have no interest. A big-five publisher would have eInk available for both consumers and libraries.

Do you mean like this book which is published by Doubleday? http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/comp...=9780679406419 Oops--it's not actually available in digital format at all, even though it's been 25 years since it was published! How can that be?? Isn't Doubleday a fairly big publisher owned by mega publisher Bertelsmann? Maybe it's because this book is hard to translate to digital format? What about this one, written by a Nobel Peace Prize winner and published by an imprint of Macmillan? http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/nigh...=9780809073641 Again...it seems as if there would have been PLENTY of time to publish the ebook edition if they intended to. Face facts, please. Availability of a book in digital form has NOTHING to do with the size of the publisher. It can have an impact on it's availability in libraries, but it doesn't have to.

Last but not least, in my opinion, Createspace is NOT a publisher. They are a distributor for artist's works, and they also offer other services that are paid for separately from the distribution. They take an artist's work and put it into paper, CD and DVD (they also offer services for music and movies).

Shari