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Originally Posted by phenomshel
While I am not pleased with either party, I say this is the kick in the pants Macmillan needed to get off their complacent corporate butts and distribute their author's titles to retail outlets BESIDES Amazon. Donna Andrews, a Macmillan author that I'm a huge fan of, up until this week was Amazon only. Now she's available at B&N. I think there are two authors left on my wishlist that are still Amazon only, and published by Macmillan.
I hope the rest of the publishers take note and start wider distribution, now that they see how easy it is for an outlet to pull their titles.
EDIT: Yes, I know that's lousy grammar.
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I too, love Donna Andrews' books. Just to let you know, two of her most recent books ("Swan for the Money" & "Six Geese-a-Slaying"), have been available at the Sony store for awhile now. "The Penguin Who Knew Too Much" has not been available before, anywhere. It's been out in pback for 18mths and B&N are selling it for $9.99. I'm glad that TPZ was cracked before this mess happened because I was able to get "Cockatiels at Seven".
I don't mind waiting for the book to drop in price since I've been doing it for years by waiting for the pback versions. I do mind paying more for an ebook version than a pback. I think $10 is too much for a book that has been pback for over a year.
I might consider getting "Penguins" (if I had the money), if I knew for sure which format it was in (ereader or epub). I think ereader DRM has been cracked but not the epub. Of course, I'm not sure if I want to go the hassle of stripping the DRM, since I had such a hard time with tpz.
Back on topic
I think Amazon was idiotic the way they responded to Macmillan, but I think Macmillan are idiotic in the way they consider ebooks. Ebooks are here to stay. They need to stop complaining how one company operates in regards to their books and make the books available in more stores. If their books were more readily available (in other stores, formats), they wouldn't need to depend on Amazon for the source of their ebook money. Start putting the backlist of pbooks out in ebook and get more money, without sacrificing paperbooks' money. And make sure that those backlist list books are priced low (as in under $7) and they'll make money. I've been waiting a couple years now for Anne McCaffrey's Rowan series to be available. The prequel trilogy is out and the last book ("The Tower and The Hive")in the series is out, but four books are missing and they are published by Tor. I'll be replacing pbacks, so Macmillan will be getting my money twice for the same book. How could they not like that?