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Originally Posted by murg
Improving the design of ebooks would involve the publishers to spend money on them. Since the publishers aren't even spending money on fixing OCR errors at the moment, nor even spending money on proof-reading physical books, I shan't wait for publishers to start spending money on adding some more design to ebooks.
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Indeed. We tried swimming in publisher-house waters, but for what they pay for an entire book, we could barely do a chapter. That's hyperbole, of course--but not by much.
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Originally Posted by sydmalicious
Publishers aren't even spending money on marketing and promotion, leaving mid-list authors to build some ridiculous social media platform. And they don't really care about ebooks so of course they are going to be stingy with the funds for ebook layouts.
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I'm not sure I'd call it "ridiculous." I'm constantly surprised at the phenomenon of fans wanting personal contact with authors. I mean, sure, if I was already in a bookstore, and one of my fave authors happened to be there, great, I'd probably grab a signature, or something, but get all stalk-ery, on a website? Meh.
Nonetheless--it's obviously something that works. Indy authors that cultivate that type of relationship, create mailing lists, send out announcements and the like seem to have better sales than those that don't.
FWIW.
Hitch