I have an Idea

[PennyPie]

I email the publishers letting them know I just read the e-book version and enjoyed it very much. I also note that I would have purchased it had it been available.

Good for you!!

[brecklundin]

Originally Posted by Tim32127

Everytime a book is released that I would buy if it was released in ebook(in a format i will deal with) I'm emailing the publisher letting them know they lost a sell. If more people did this mabee they'll get the idea that they are only hurting the people that want to support them by holding back.

Tim..

Hey Tim,

I happened to just have sent off an email to Schiffer about ebook versions of their titles. I know most of their titles are newer so there have to be workable electronic versions of many of their current titles. Some maybe not but I would hope they were working toward this now and not still waiting. I mentioned that I am essentially done buying print edition books, even the reference titles I need or would like to own. I pointed them here, indicated the newer large format devices are coming to market now not years from now as well.

I have not a lot of hope because this is not the first time I have sent such an email and never received a response to past emails. I actually worry that these niche sort of publishers are too old school to understand why ebook editions would be exceedingly popular once large format readers are out in force, as in this year...

Of course I pointed them here, as if they are not already aware of the popularity...then again they might be intentionally be ignoring this market.

Needless to say, I have little hope of ever seeing the titles I want and use the most as ebook editions...

[calvin-c]

Originally Posted by Tim32127

Everytime a book is released that I would buy if it was released in ebook(in a format i will deal with) I'm emailing the publisher letting them know they lost a sell. If more people did this mabee they'll get the idea that they are only hurting the people that want to support them by holding back.

I've been doing this for quite a few years in regard to places/people who won't ship to Alaska-and so far I haven't seen any change in behavior. Good luck, but I won't hold my breath.

[Tim32127]

Originally Posted by jament

I email the publishers letting them know I just read the e-book version and enjoyed it very much. I also note that I would have purchased it had it been available.

That's funny, If everyone did that they would have to pay attention to the market there tring to either ignore or control

[Tim32127]

Hello brecklundin,
I don't think a few emails will change anyones mind, but I do know there are more than a few people frustrated with the way this market is being dealt with.
I don't know how many emails it'll take but I have to at least make the effort.

The ebooks are out there the only people they are hurting are the people who want to support them. Thats what makes it so stupid to me.
Tim..

[Tim32127]

Originally Posted by calvin-c

I've been doing this for quite a few years in regard to places/people who won't ship to Alaska-and so far I haven't seen any change in behavior. Good luck, but I won't hold my breath.

Thats why I started this post,
I know they'll just ignore a few emails I hope other people will agree it's worth the effort.

[WT Sharpe]

Last year I sent an e-mail to the author of a book I'd like to read, and wrote a letter to a publishing firm that prints many titles I would like to read on my Kindle.

Although both the letter and the e-mail were cordial, complimentary, and without a trace on negativity, I never heard back from either one.

[starrigger]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Last year I sent an e-mail to the author of a book I'd like to read, and wrote a letter to a publishing firm that prints many titles I would like to read on my Kindle.

Although both the letter and the e-mail were cordial, complimentary, and without a trace on negativity, I never heard back from either one.

That doesn't mean they weren't noticed. Every little bit helps.

Most authors have little to no control over the timing or format of the ebook editions of their books. (Or the paper editions, for that matter.) And even if an author hates DRM, that doesn't mean they can do anything about it. It's controlled somewhat by the publisher, and definitely by the retailers. My publishers hate DRM, but Amazon and Sony require it.

[brecklundin]

Originally Posted by Tim32127

Hello brecklundin,
I don't think a few emails will change anyones mind, but I do know there are more than a few people frustrated with the way this market is being dealt with.
I don't know how many emails it'll take but I have to at least make the effort.

The ebooks are out there the only people they are hurting are the people who want to support them. Thats what makes it so stupid to me.
Tim..

Get used to that sense of frustration. Many of us here have been reading ebooks for a loooong time, well before the idea of Eink brand panels was in it's larval stage. We know all too well the motivations of the publishers and they sense any ebooks amount to stealing profits from them, even if over the next 40yrs they will earn income from a book that before ebooks they might have seen sales for a decade or less and in rare cases a couple decades.

One way people can address this is to simply email constantly whenever you scan a copy so you can have an ebook version or even if you visit darknet because you had no other choice. Also email those in control of the copyright laws in your country. In my opinion I feel if there is this pretty much 125 to 150 yr copyrights in the US (write a book at 25, live to 75, add 78ys after death [I think] = 122ish years of control over a single work) then publishers should be required to provide ebook versions. I don't feel that is unreasonable in exchange for the fact there will never again be public domain versions of works created in our lifetimes...think a bout that idea and the irony of the fact today's AmeriCorps all live by the quarterly report only...anything beyond that is meaningless to them. So it is all about today's profits not tomorrow's. Yet they wet themselves over the idea of these new century+ copyrights and owning the rights to the work.