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Originally Posted by Alsicole
I'd like a rant about books on which TV shows and movies are based! If you're getting your book made into a TV show and it's popular and you're getting it updated with a shiny new cover, PLEASE MAKE AN E-BOOK OF IT TOO! Vampire Diaries, I'm looking at you. There's no PDF/EPUB version of the first 3 Vampire Diaries books, but there is of "The Return". I'm enjoying the show, I want to read the books that correspond, not a book that's a few years down the line and bears no relation to what I'm watching. It's very frustrating.
This also brings me on to book series. If you've written a book series, don't convert Book 3 or 4 onwards to ebook and not start at the beginning. It's stupid and instead of forcing me to buy a paperback, it just means I'll buy someone else's book series and read that instead!
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Amen, Amen, Amen, and AMEN!!!!!!!!!! Now that I've wholeheartedly agreed, let me just point out that it's not usually the authors that are at fault here. It's the publishers. If you want to blame the authors for something, blame them that most of them haven't got a clue what their contracts say in regards to ebooks. Or much of anything else. Don't get me wrong here, I love authors (what reader doesn't?), and I'm friends with a whole bunch of them. But it never ceases to amaze me just exactly how little most of them know about those contracts they signed.