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Ok, I just made a completely non-scientific and exhustive browse through some of the titles available for the Kindle on Amazon and the ebook price for every title I looked at was the lowest price of all formats, and lower by more than 10% in each case.
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And it is this market which neither authors nor the original publisher get a cut of which I have used for probably 85 percent of my book purchases all of my life. Textbooks included. Instead of worrying about piracy, writers have a chance to capture the biggest portion of the second hand pie. By superseding it economically. |
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And before you say, well, do all the editing right in the digital file...I'd say, no thank you. I think most writers and editors would agree. And it's not just because the tools aren't up to the job. It's because you see a lot on the paper edit that you don't see on the screen. I can't explain it, except that it's just different. Things jump out at you that you'd miss otherwise. It's an important part of the editing process, for me at least. |
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I do agree that it should be a simple matter of taking the final electronic copy and converting it so it can then be imported into whatever programs are going to be used for the differing eBook formats. It's crazy that in this day and age, we cannot do that. |
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Can you not do that to a certain degree using HTML as base format?
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As for editing, I often do that on paper, too. Then I put the changes back into the electronic copy. |
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Yes, but I do not think word format is the input to the typesetting. So you already now have to do a conversion from the format the author submits in. So just do this conversion to a format that is suitable for a base to transform to many different final formats.
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I know. That's what I just said. The first conversion to that base format would be easier if the submitters follow a style guide. That's my point. I am fully aware and have said several times that it needs to be converted afterward.
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The DaVinci Code took several years to go into mass market. People would always ask me when it would, and I'd tell them when people actually stopped buying the hardcover. |
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I feel sorry for all those people that manage to design a software program, code the program, test and debug, distribute the software for sale, bank the earnings, all on their lonesome. No one to help them..... must be so hard.
What really gets me is that the person actually got paid to think about how to convince the general public about why e-books are so expensive. He must of gone to the pub and had a beer while he wrote down every excuse he could think of. I doubt anyone actually verified the excuses, they sound so real so they must be true. The problem here is in my opinion most people that read books and buy them actually have a functional brain and must have a little snigger when they read his post. I mean does anyone actually believe a word that has dribbled from his mouth. I don't, and I am insulted that this person had the tenacity to try to think that his words would sound so convincing, that I would believe it. I feel sorry for authors that would like to embrace technology and have their works published in a new electronic medium. The publishers are so scared of it, as they lose the total control over the print media that exists now. They cant have authors discovering that they can actually set up their own publishing center on the Internet for less than $500.00 and bypass the publisher completely. So keep the ebooks prices high and in line with the hardback price and then show the author that there are next to no sales electronically and "Oh Dear, look someone has posted your work on a pirate site, Oh no, we must stop doing this electronic thingy", and of course they are so convincing and the poor author believes them, or has to, they do pay him. Last edited by gandor62; 02-04-2009 at 04:16 PM. Reason: Really annoyed when someone assumes they are so convincing, but full of garbage. |
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