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Originally Posted by Lemurion
Before I joined MR, I had never heard of Steve Jordan. That's a much bigger problem than piracy. No one is going to buy a book if they don't know it exists. Once that's solved, then we can worry about piracy.
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Quoted for truth.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our pirates, but in our promotion.
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This is the one big benefit of the current commercial publishing model. It's far from perfect, but it puts books where readers can find them better than any of the other available models.
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Yes and no. It puts
some books where the readers can find them, but at the cost of condemning
other books to unpublished obscurity or the shame of the vanity press.
I read a wonderful mystery a while back --
Lacing Up for Murder (buy it and tell her to write more!) -- which I bought from BookView Cafe. According to the author, the book was rejected by mainstream print publishers. I don't know why, but it really comes down to the fact that they can only publish X number of books a year, and have to pick the X books that they (shaking their crystal balls) think will make them the most money. They don't always guess right, at least as far as my tastes are concerned. Why someone would think "Carpe Demon" was worth publishing and "Lacing Up for Murder" wasn't escapes me entirely, but someone did ... and if mainstream print publishing was the only way to sell a book, I would never have read that book which I enjoyed so much.