Thread: Stephen Covey ditches Simon & Schuster, gives exclusive rights to Amazon
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Old 12-15-2009, 11:49 PM   #50
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Originally Posted by wallcraft View Post
If giving Amazon a one year head start on an ebook is what it takes to get a backlist title as an ebook, then that is a net win. The ebook is forever, Amazon's exclusive is only one year.

In this case, the ebooks seem to already be available. So you can buy them today, but in the future there will be one year period when you can't without a Kindle.
The last time I heard about a time limited eBook deal with Amazon was Terry Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule. It was supposed to be 6 months exclusive and then generally released. This has not happened long after the 6 months was up. So I don't really have a good feeling about this deal. I think it could just as easily turn into another Wizard's First Rule. So why is making some of us wait at least a year (If not longer) better then making us wait 4 months? It's not. It's worse. And we have no evidence that when the year is up, the eBooks will be available elsewhere.
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