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Old 01-31-2010, 11:03 AM   #163
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Originally Posted by Pardoz View Post
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.
It's been a while since I checked, but all the Macmillan-US publishers were pretty bad at releasing ebooks.
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