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Old 06-29-2009, 11:34 AM   #88
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Long Beach, CA
Device: Color Nook, Kindle 2, Palm III, eBookWise, HP Jornada
Backlash against Amazon

This is very funny. I did a quick search and found that at least some of their books are available in paper format through Amazon. Surely if they hate Amazon so much, they would find a way to keep their books from being listed there.

Seriously, being a book lover, I can understand a reluctance to go with eBooks. The first time I was exposed to the idea of eBooks, back in the late 1980s, I thought, useful for reference but not the same as reading. The first time I read an entire novel on my Palm, though, my eyes were open. After a while, the device goes away and only the story remains.

I've got no knock against publishers going with business models that work for them. I sell paper as well as eBooks because my authors like to have paper available. If Rue Morgue's authors and customers don't demand eBooks, more power to them. I also have no knock against anyone who's suspicious of Amazon. I'm suspicious, too. But I believe in finding my customers where they are. If some of my customers have Kindles and buy through the Kindle store, you can bet that I'll be there, too, and Amazon does make it affordable for small publishers to participate (although they do take a nice little cut for themselves).

Rob Preece
Publisher, www.BooksForABuck.com
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