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Originally Posted by ahi
Are there any eBook websites that specialize in established classical and contemporary writers and offer professional quality eBooks therefrom?
It seems to me that on any given website the bulk of the material is from virtual unknowns... not to mention that genre/theme preferences seem very heavily weighed in favour of what I would categorize as "pulp fiction" of mostly predictable varieties.
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Walk into a Brick and Mortar store lately? I think you will find mostly the same thing. About 2 months ago I went into a Borders near my house and was shocked to find they had barely any Patrick O'Brian... The general fiction section was tiny, and even when you added the shelves of genre fiction to the mix, I think it was safe to say that offerings were inadequate.
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I'm not against new authors being given a chance and/or more exposure than in the paper book market/world... but now and then I am driven to despair by how little I can find from collections of thousands of books that actually interest me. In contrast, Project Gutenberg and the Hungarian Electronic Library and treasure troves... but with both of those, I have to do my own formatting and, while there is much of interest, both organization's selection is limited in its own way.
- Ahi
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I agree with others that say that PG has gotten a lot better. As long as books added to PG are formatted the way PG has asked them to be (in the text files), it is actually pretty easy to reformat them. In fact, I wrote a relatively short Perl Script that reformatts PG books so that they look like regular text on my jetbook.
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Bill