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ficbot · 02-04-2010, 07:13 PM

I guess my problem is, I don't trust MacMillan to actually lower it later, since they have not ever done that yet. There are ebooks on sale at Fictionwise for $17 which have been in mass market paperback for over a decade. So they say 'we will lower it over time, sure' and it seems like they won't. As Dr. Phil would say, the best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour

I remember emailing an author about a series where book 2 onward was available as an ebook and book 1 was not, and the author was very nice about it. She even said that I was not the first person to email her about this problem. And I thought this was completely ridiculous, there is a product people want to buy and they are refusing ti sell it. I feel like publishers don't even have a basic grasp of how to do business.

And---this might be an unpopular opinion, but anyway---I don't even mind hurting the authors a little right now. I love books and I love literature and I love authors, but imho they have been FAR too passive about this whole thing. If I can do something like a one-star Amazon review which might spur them into putting pressures on the Powers That be to help us finally fix this miss---for everyone's mutual benefit---then I say Power to the People, and I devoutly hope that any author who doesn't like it will run screaming to their agent or their editor or to whomever and get the problem fixed, because we readers have been struggling for years and it's clearly not getting us anywhere. Maybe if they fought as hard as we are rather than just saying 'I have no control' or 'that's not my job' we might make some progress here.

02-04-2010, 07:13 PM	#93
ficbot Wizard Posts: 2,409 Karma: 4132096 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: Kindle Paperwhite/iOS Kindle App	I guess my problem is, I don't trust MacMillan to actually lower it later, since they have not ever done that yet. There are ebooks on sale at Fictionwise for $17 which have been in mass market paperback for over a decade. So they say 'we will lower it over time, sure' and it seems like they won't. As Dr. Phil would say, the best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour I remember emailing an author about a series where book 2 onward was available as an ebook and book 1 was not, and the author was very nice about it. She even said that I was not the first person to email her about this problem. And I thought this was completely ridiculous, there is a product people want to buy and they are refusing ti sell it. I feel like publishers don't even have a basic grasp of how to do business. And---this might be an unpopular opinion, but anyway---I don't even mind hurting the authors a little right now. I love books and I love literature and I love authors, but imho they have been FAR too passive about this whole thing. If I can do something like a one-star Amazon review which might spur them into putting pressures on the Powers That be to help us finally fix this miss---for everyone's mutual benefit---then I say Power to the People, and I devoutly hope that any author who doesn't like it will run screaming to their agent or their editor or to whomever and get the problem fixed, because we readers have been struggling for years and it's clearly not getting us anywhere. Maybe if they fought as hard as we are rather than just saying 'I have no control' or 'that's not my job' we might make some progress here.