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Although we haven't discussed it much in this particular thread, others have discussed the possibility of getting the public into e-books by first introducing them to e-newspapers and e-magazines. Periodicals have a set and regular customer base, and if an already-popular periodical offered some incentive or value-added extra (to ease that friction), subscribers and other regular readers might get on-board readily and enjoy the daily/weekly/monthly content. If the content, combined with the extras, is compelling enough, people will endure some friction to get into the new system, and over time, much of the friction will be duly worn away. Then, once they are regular e-readers, they could add e-books to their periodical reading in due course. |
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I confess, I have looked at Baen's site before, but never managed to get beyond the 'exploding spaceships' home page. Today I did, and the free library (and Eric Flint's introduction to it) looks very interesting, so many thanks for pointing me that way. And yes, I did download a couple of books, just to take a look... Quote:
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See P. Watts for that, Tor severely limited the number of words he could put as sample, and I believe that's true in most cases just that few authors are as candid and have this f.. you atitude that Dr. Watts has - since his book Blindsight was initially printed in a less than 4k run and not taken by one of the big chains, he went ahead damned Tor and released the whole book under cc and since then he got 3 more hc's printings, a tpb run comes next year, got nominated for all major awards and the like... There are exceptional cases when the author can negotiate a cc release with his publisher, but most of the times that's forbidden (C. Stross is another author who talks relatively open about this issues, not as candid as Dr. Watts, but still you can get the idea...) If you are not published, to release your work as e-book is generally seen as suicidal for any chance at a print published career. There are people that do well as e-only, but again most authors want to get a book in print, and going e first is seen as destroying almost any chance of that (again there are exceptions like J. Scalzi, but...) |
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I agree that the Baen Free Library model does work particularly well for authors with series, though I think it would also work well for any author with more than, say, 3-5 books. The older books are often out of print anyway, so the author can't get any sales from them, and some authors could probably start trying to sell ebook versions of their out of print inventory on their own, but why get into that mess, if Baen will publicize them-- and sell the newer books?
I've been trying to talk Steven Brust into looking into the Tor-Baen deal, now that it seems to be on again. He's got 10 books in the Vlad Taltos series, plus 5 volumes of the "Kaavren Romances." If he were to give away Jhereg and The Phoenix Guards through the Baen Free Library, and offer the rest of his volumes for sale there, I feel pretty confident that his work would sell quite well in that venue. |
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You might also suggest he try Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grill -- I rather enjoyed that one, and I don't think it's in print anymore.
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Nope, not sure of it at all, Nate.
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Sony is doing the same thing. They came out with a new ebook format and the only portable device that displays it is a Sony Reader. Sony might be the last company to come out with a new ebook format and get away with it. We have yet to see how well Adpobe will do with Digital Editions. And for DE to take off, it needs to be supported in enough portable devices and the books sold all over. |
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However, it's simple enough to convert content bought through iTunes to another format -- I believe converting to MP3 is an option in the iTunes desktop app. (Don't currently have it installed and can't check.) Quote:
Adobe might do better with Digital Editions, since they are reasonably cross-platform. I'm not a big fan ot the PDF format, for example, but I can read PDFs one everything I have, including my PalmOS PDA. ______ Dennis Last edited by DMcCunney; 08-29-2007 at 01:10 PM. |
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When it comes to music, Windows is also the better tool vs the MAC (with OS X). The tools on Windows are far superior to what's available for a MAC.
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http://www.tor-forge.com/cowboyfengsspacebarandgrille Or, you could buy it here. |
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The key to the Baen effort is that you can download and read one or more complete novels by an author on their list, free of charge. You read the books, decide you like a particular author's stuff, and buy the next one when it appears. Stuff you download but don't buy isn't a loss to Baen or the author, as you wouldn't have bought those titles anyway. Quote:
I'm less of a fan of the Khaavren stuff -- Brust is doing pastiches of Dumas, and while I like Dumas, they don't go down as well as the Taltos books. I read the Phoenix Guards, and a friend who is also a Brust fan asked how I liked them. I replied the characters were idiots. "Of course they're idiots!" he replied. "Dumas' characters were idiots, too!" I thought about it and decided he was right. They were young, with fine tailoring, exquisite manners, and sharp swords. Why did they need brains? ![]() ______ Dennis |
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