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Originally Posted by daffy4u
I HATE that idea. I am NOT going to pay hardcover price for an ebook no matter when it is released. No, a thousand times no!  |
That's the beauty of it - if it works the way everyone seems to be suggesting, you wont have to. You might have to wait a few months to be able to get the eBook at a discounted price but it will get there eventually. That really is no different from how you would have had to do it with pBooks just a few years ago. The problem is that I cant see publishers adhering to the schedule like that and really lowering prices on time.
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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
I do agree that the answer is to eventually cut out the middleman and do away with publishers. Authors can just sell e-books themselves, hire marketing firms once they have some success etc. and have more freedom in setting prices, not having publishers take a big chunk of sales etc.
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But publishers add value too. I am in no way defending them, I'm just stating that they do add value, from editing and proofreading to copy fitting and marketing, these are all things that add to the value of the book. If readers are willing to give them up then sure, you can eliminate them completely, personally I am a lot less inclined to read more books in a series or even by the same author if they are full of errors and are hard to read. Sure the author could do some of that themselves, some might even be good at it, but for the most part they are not the ones that should be proofing their own work.
I think a more likely step will be to get rid of the distributors and publishers will begin selling eBooks directly.