MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Waking the book publishers (by other means than piracy)

LazyScot · 08-07-2008, 06:22 PM

Excellent idea, Haridasi.

I'd also recommend mentioning the ability to resize text. It sounds daft, but there are a lot of people for whom books are otherwise inaccessible, and there are times when my eyes are sore that the large text size has been a godsend. After all, it means that their books are magically available in large-print.

I wonder, if appropriate, it is worth indicating if you went and bought a different electronic book (from a competing publisher, hopefully). Some might read it and think that you are just going to crack and buy their book, rather than a concrete sale that was lost.

I'm developing an image in my mind best summed up as "Dear (ostridge-like) publisher, I know it looks as if we are trying to strangle you, but we are in fact trying to pull your head out of the sand and point out the heard that is stampeding in your direction..." Not something we would put in the letter!

Once again, congratulations on an excellent and positive suggestion.

08-07-2008, 06:22 PM	#21
LazyScot DSil Posts: 3,201 Karma: 6895096 Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Hants, UK Device: Kindle, Cybook	Excellent idea, Haridasi. I'd also recommend mentioning the ability to resize text. It sounds daft, but there are a lot of people for whom books are otherwise inaccessible, and there are times when my eyes are sore that the large text size has been a godsend. After all, it means that their books are magically available in large-print. I wonder, if appropriate, it is worth indicating if you went and bought a different electronic book (from a competing publisher, hopefully). Some might read it and think that you are just going to crack and buy their book, rather than a concrete sale that was lost. I'm developing an image in my mind best summed up as "Dear (ostridge-like) publisher, I know it looks as if we are trying to strangle you, but we are in fact trying to pull your head out of the sand and point out the heard that is stampeding in your direction..." Not something we would put in the letter! Once again, congratulations on an excellent and positive suggestion.