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Old 09-10-2010, 03:43 PM   #1
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This might be a first
Good for HC for thinking on its feet and utilizing one of the benefits of digital.

HarperCollins releases e-book ahead of hardcover
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Old 09-10-2010, 03:46 PM   #2
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Not a major fiction publisher, but Steve Jackson Games have been doing this for the last year or two with their hardbacks. The PDF's coming out about 3 months ahead of the hardcover, which gives a short window of a couple of weeks for any last minute errors to be spotted before the final proofs go to press.

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Why not? The p-Book needs to go into production and be made, but if they've typset it electronically, then creating an e-Book is trivial to do.

(Just don't tell anybody because the big publishers want you to believe that it costs more to "make", "warehouse", and distribute an e-Book)
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Old 09-10-2010, 04:35 PM   #4
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Good for HC for thinking on its feet and utilizing one of the benefits of digital.

HarperCollins releases e-book ahead of hardcover
Good for them, indeed. But it's not even close to being a first. Baen's been doing that for over a decade.

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Old 09-10-2010, 06:59 PM   #5
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I ordered an HC ebook from Amazon yesterday and sales tax was added. Called Amazon CS about it and they said that HC insised on the sales tax. Wish that was made clear before the purchase was made.
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Old 09-10-2010, 07:26 PM   #7
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I ordered an HC ebook from Amazon yesterday and sales tax was added. Called Amazon CS about it and they said that HC insised on the sales tax. Wish that was made clear before the purchase was made.
Agency Model means the ebook seller of record is HC, not Amazon.
So everybody pays sales tax on books from the Price-Fix Five.
It has been thoroughly documented here and elsewhere.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83663
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=86127
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Old 09-10-2010, 08:28 PM   #8
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Agency Model means the ebook seller of record is HC, not Amazon.
So everybody pays sales tax on books from the Price-Fix Five.
It has been thoroughly documented here and elsewhere.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83663
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=86127
Thank you for your kind clarification.
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Old 09-11-2010, 10:09 AM   #9
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Many small publishers release e-books first, including mine. I think we'll see more and more of this from independents. Yet for most books, the Big 6 are still holding back...and alienating readers.
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Old 09-11-2010, 11:26 AM   #10
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It's always going to be change or die with technology. The quicker they learn, the better for them.
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(Just don't tell anybody because the big publishers want you to believe that it costs more to "make", "warehouse", and distribute an e-Book)
Do they really? I mean, seriously--do these people think the rest of us just fell off the turnip truck? It doesn't require a Harvard MBA to figure out that storing and serving up a digital file is orders of magnitude cheaper than printing, storing, and shipping a physical book. If publishers actually think the reading public is that stupid, it shows how out of touch they are with their market.

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Harelquin has been doing this for awhile now.
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