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Originally Posted by Argel
Roll on the day when Amazon (and others) start to bid for ebook rights and publish directly...
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It's starting to happen quietly. I read
this a couple of days ago.
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After Zetta Elliott couldn't interest publishers in her novel about a black-Latina teen who travels back in time to Civil War-era Brooklyn, she joined a growing number of writers and paid to publish it herself in 2008.
A Wish After Midnight sold about 500 copies — nearly covering her expenses, she says. More important, she says, her teen novel was praised on blogs and used in schools and libraries.
But when an editor from Amazon, the online retailer, called last year offering to publish it, Elliott says, "I thought it was a hoax."
It wasn't. This month, her novel, along with Daniel Annechino's They Never Die Quietly and Maria Murname's Perfect on Paper, will be released as AmazonEncore paperbacks, e-books and audios.
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Amazon's major rivals, Barnes and Noble and Borders, list AmazonEncore titles on their websites and say that, depending on demand, they may carry them in their physical stores as well.
Given Amazon's dispute with publishers over e-book pricing, Michael Norris, an analyst with Simba Information, sees the experiment as a sign of Amazon's ambitions. But he says it's far from "the top of the things (big) publishers have to worry about. It's something to watch and see if it grows or goes away."
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