Thread: John Grisham speaks out on the future of pbooks and ebooks
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Old 11-05-2009, 06:48 AM   #99
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
Publishers are also promoters. You can put a book on your own web site for a long time before anyone notices.

Dale
Talking about Grisham and today, I think that if HE puts online hist site (or facebook/twitter/myspace/whatever blog)with direct ebook selling, he'll be noticed.
He'll get the news without even paying for it just for being the fist one!

Obviously it will work just for the first 5-10 who goes like that, but eventually, in the immediate future some big name not too tightly tied to a publisher, will go online by him/herself and make some good money.

When the game no longer works, authors will have to group themselves and replace publishers with "guilds", selling to today's publishers exclusive rights for printed editions which won't include ebooks rights.
The two markets will go hand in hand, everybody making profit.


Right now publisher are profiting selling printed PD books available online for free..............
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