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Originally Posted by jasonkchapman
That, however, opens a really nice market niche. A small specialty house, just like some POD houses do currently, can focus on bringing back out-of-print titles by appealing to authors directly.
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I was thinking something very similar: call it an ... agency that takes pubs' backlists, figures out who has the e-rights to the titles and contacts them to match them up with an e-press that would then create the book and offer it for sale.
Actually, that "specialty house" could be very small, indeed, if it just handled that, plus perhaps creating the e-text, and then handed off the book to be marketed and sold by someone else, like fictionwise or wherever. That would be a very pivotal position if someone wanted to exercise a bit of influence on what formats (like, say, .epub) were dominant in the market too.
This may be the only entrepreneurial notion I've ever liked enough to actually consider what it might take to actually
do it. I'm not saying I'm gonna, but I admit it's got me
thinking about it.