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Originally Posted by JaneFancher
That's a bit harsh, don't you think? A lot of backlist is trapped in old contracts made at a time when the home computer, let alone the internet and ebooks, wasn't even a glimmer on the horizon.
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And, let's face it, there's at least one publisher who is grabbing the ebook rights anyway, although the contracts they made didn't address them.
And well - bluntly no. Quite simply, I have a fixed budget for books, and whenever possible possible (when they are DRM-free and priced reasonably) I buy ebooks. Encouraging high prices, an attitude of entitlement simply because books are in ebook and not paper form and DRM by paying, even to the author directly, is imo wrong and would simply reduce the amount I spent on new books and ebooks - I buy quite a bit from authors who are only epublished, and from Baen.
(Heck, I spent a fair amount of my budget on RPG game books, which are near uniformly very reasonably priced and are watermarked PDF's rather than DRM'ed, despite being more expensive to produce in terms of layout and images - and yes, I've worked on RPG's, as well as computer games)
I've also tried to work with authors directly, to have at least two (Stross and Scalzi) be
extremely rude to me on several occasions, seriously reducing my willingness to do so in future. I've worked with Baen authors in the past on side projects with no issues, and will continue to do so, but they've already "seen the light" from my perspective.
(As a note, I also don't buy from authors who try and tell me I don't have my basic legal rights, which applies here)
I haven't bought from Closed Circle, and now won't.