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Originally Posted by Pushka
 I KNOW that you are wrong. You are guessing, you have no idea. You know a lot of best selling authors do you? Contracts are signed MONTHS if not a YEAR before the books are written. Especially in a series. Just because it is what you think is the case, does not make it the reality. You think people write a book and THEN sign the contract? Well, good authors dont, anyway - their contract is a done deal well before pen is put to paper. Then the book is written.
Contracts that are being signed NOW will have this flexibility incorporated into them, then just as blogs, online forums are being built into business models, so will the ebook and its distribution be built into the book contract. But ebooks are a NEW thing to the majority of the population and this is a transition period. But doing stuff like this is simply crap.
Authors like JK Rollings are probably so well entrenched they can risk not putting their books into ebook form - believe it or not, ebookers are in the minority on this planet. |
hopefully this is educational to the authors coming up on new contracts and this type of consideration will benefit them.
"ebookers" may be in the minority now, but I do believe that this is a VERY rapidly changing circumstance.
good ol' JK can stay entrenched as long as she likes, but I for one have made my last legal purchase of any of her work until she comes out of the hole in the ground she has dug herself