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Originally Posted by Shiren
I don't understand how can an author think like that. Ebooks are great for authors because they remove the need for a publisher. That means more profit for authors and more authors for us. How many great books never got printed because publishers thought it wouldn't make money?
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Very true. Grisham is in the privelegded position that he is already famous, and millions will buy his books, no matter what. He could "make" a small epublishing site all by himself (Smashwords, or whatever). Hell, for someone like that, they probably wouldn't even charge, or take a loss. Can you imagine the traffic he would drive to a small site? At $10 a book, he is in the catbird seat.
Of course, who knows what kind of special treatment he gets from publishers, but it seems like he is better positioned to take advantage of e-publishing than almost all other writers.