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Originally Posted by fugazied
This is great!
I hope that some big name authors take the leap soon as well. If we get a Tom Clancy level author deciding to self publish or starting a direct e-book partnership with Apple/B&N/Amazon then it will start a landslide. Publishers will be forced to concede to some consumer and author demands.
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Keep in mind these books have already been published in hard copy, and therefore have had the benefit of professional editorial development; new texts published in this way will have skipped this important step. They've already gone through the gatekeepers. What they are doing is basically the same as releasing a new paperback edition of these particular novels.
That being said, it's great that these authors are aggressively using the rights that belong to them! Authors with books published in the past five or six years might not have the same flexibility and freedom.