Thread: Amazon pulls MacMillan?
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Old 01-31-2010, 09:29 AM   #155
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Originally Posted by starrigger View Post
Macmillan, for not getting my Tor novel into ebook format as promised.
That's the killer irony here. Of the major publishers, Macmillan (at least the Tor imprint, and I don't have any reason to believe their other imprints fare any differently) has by leagues the worst track record around in terms of actually publishing e-books. Price point is pretty much irrelevant if you're not actually offering to sell any products.

I can't help but laugh when I see Charles Stross hailing Macmillan as the author's economic saviour in e-publishing when none of his work from Tor/Macmillan is for sale in electronic format. I have no real way of knowing just how much he makes from electronic sales of his e-books published by Ace/Penguin under the onerous shackles of the current regime and price structure, but I have to assume it's a sum greater than the $0.00 he's getting from Tor/Macmillan.
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