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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I note that to be eligible for 70%, the title must enable text-to-speech. I wish they'd also insist on DRM-free.
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I entirely agree.
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Originally Posted by Moejoe
Who'd a thunk gay-hating, closeted, DRM ridden, greedy corporatists like Amazon would ever be the ones to be on the author's side.  |
Let's not go there, please. Even with a smiley.
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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
Oh--those of you talking about DRM--it is up to the publisher whether to include DRM. Their current upload process allows me and other authors to opt out of DRM.
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Is that so? I'd heard other authors complain that they didn't want to distribute through Amazon because they'd been told they would be forced to use DRM.
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Originally Posted by darius
Publishers are going to feel the pinch, when all is said and done they are the middlemen who connect the authors with the reading public. Create a profitable low cost distribution system and the age of the publisher could be soon extinct.
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So long as
editors don't become extinct. I am still firmly of the opinion that a good editor is critical to the writing/publishing process.