Angry Robot Books Want Your Opinion on Ebook Pricing

[LeeH]

Originally Posted by basschick

hopefully lee will be back here to announce when the prices are up. first off, always good to hear from a publisher, but secondly if a publisher gets into the mindset of making announcements like that on all the ebook boards, blogs and sites, they'll see more sales and that will encourage them to continue with more ebooks.

This is certainly true - mind you, I keep meaning to come back and post anyway - not just as a publisher, but as a reader (I was reading eBooks 7 years before I joined Angry Robot). With less than 6 weeks until the UK (and e) launch, though, it's been pretty hectic this end, so I've not managed to do everything I wanted to.

Price confirmation soon, I promise. Meanwhile, I'll be posting a sample chapter online, shortly for one of our launch titles. I'll let you know when it's up...

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Update: Sample chapter now online in PDF, ePub and Mobi formats.
http://angryrobotbooks.com/2009/05/slights-free-sample/

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by LeeH

This is certainly true - mind you, I keep meaning to come back and post anyway - not just as a publisher, but as a reader (I was reading eBooks 7 years before I joined Angry Robot). With less than 6 weeks until the UK (and e) launch, though, it's been pretty hectic this end, so I've not managed to do everything I wanted to.

Price confirmation soon, I promise. Meanwhile, I'll be posting a sample chapter online, shortly for one of our launch titles. I'll let you know when it's up...

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Update: Sample chapter now online in PDF, ePub and Mobi formats.
http://angryrobotbooks.com/2009/05/slights-free-sample/

Fantastic, epub, no drm, and it's the book I want to buy first!! Kudos Lee and everyone over at AngryRobot

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[sirbruce]

Originally Posted by Moejoe

Fantastic, epub, no drm, and it's the book I want to buy first!! Kudos Lee and everyone over at AngryRobot

Mobipocket and PDF, too, but:

"Please note that the formatting will vary from that of the final commercial product."

[LeeH]

Originally Posted by sirbruce

Mobipocket and PDF, too, but:

"Please note that the formatting will vary from that of the final commercial product."

That's because we'll be contracting the production of the Mobi and ePub versions to a commercial company that specialises in these things. For the samples, I put them together in the office using sealing wax and a bit of string - I posted the warning to let people know that if anyone found any formatting issues they were likely to be just in the samples and not in the end-product.

[sirbruce]

Originally Posted by LeeH

That's because we'll be contracting the production of the Mobi and ePub versions to a commercial company that specialises in these things. For the samples, I put them together in the office using sealing wax and a bit of string - I posted the warning to let people know that if anyone found any formatting issues they were likely to be just in the samples and not in the end-product.

Ahh, okay, sorry, I read that more as "the books might not be available IN THESE FORMATS" not that the formatting of a particular format may contain errors.

[griffonwing]

I, for one, have the site bookmarked for when I finally purchase a reader.

[LeeH]

Free chapter of our next book online : http://tinyurl.com/FreeMoxy
Sample in Mobi, ePub and PDF formats.

Enjoy...

[sirbruce]

For the some posters here who don't like tinyurl:
http://angryrobotbooks.com/2009/06/m...d-free-sample/