09-11-2007, 12:35 AM | #16 |
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Offering Harry Potter now as ebook does not make sense. Not all translations of HP7 are out yet. This means the paper books still earn good money.
Not before late 2008 the sales will decline. Then the ebooks should be released. |
09-11-2007, 04:20 AM | #17 |
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I have been talking to J.K Rowlings publishers and agent about the HP eBooks at the request from Laurent Picard from Bookeen. It seems they are willing to look at releasing the ebooks but the copyright and security issues have to be looked at by their legal team. They are also saying it might be delayed and looking to release all the films and then do a master release..... that could be a few years!!
I have been pushing this and hopefully the article might get more interest. |
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09-11-2007, 08:43 AM | #19 |
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Thanks, Nick! Nice to have an update.
Do you have any impressions of whether Rowling herself is holding back the ebooks, or her publishers, or both? I personally can't imagine why they'd bother worrying about DRM at this point. Talk about locking the barn after the horse has run out! |
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It might be too late for many people who wanted to buy HP in ebook format. They have already spent the money allocated for HP books when they purchased paper books. Not many people are rich enough to afford 2 different formats of the same book. |
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I would certainly expect everybody here who's been saying that it's fine to have an illegally created eBook because they can't buy one to go out and buy one when it's released. It would be utter hypocracy for them to do otherwise. |
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The thing is, I spent $18 (roughly) on HP7 because Rowling said defiantly no ebook editions. To then expect us to go out and purchase the books after the fact is hypocrisy at it's best. If they had put out the ebook at the same time, I would have been able to make my choice then and get the version I wanted most. Now in order to get a legal ebook copy, I have to shell out even more money. That's just as bad as record companies releasing enhanced CDs after I've already purchased the unenhanced CD. It's just sleazy business practices to expect consumers to pay a second time for something they paid for in the first place. And given the info we had available, we didn;t have the choice to wait as it was said there was never going to be a legal electronic version released.
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I'll happily repurchase them for two reasons. The first is to get really good e-copies, so I don't have to wonder what the boot-legger might have omitted/corrupted without noticing.
The second, and more important, is to send a firm message that I, for one, will pay for legit e-books when they're available. I'm just one person, I know, but I figure: drop by drop the bucket fills. Consider for a moment the message it would send to pubs if one of the hottest series in recent history, which had massive stories all over the place about pirated e-books as each volume came out, also had massive legit e-book sales when the petaQ finally got around to releasing it as a legit e-book. Arguably the most e-pirated series still selling massive numbers of legit e-copies? True, the pub industry is really boneheaded, but if they can ignore a message like that, then they deserve obscurity and doom. |
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Along time ago I used to buy LP records, I then went and brought the SAME records but in CD versions and I now I can get them again in MP3 versions.
No matter what you might say if you really enjoy something you will always want to experience it in the best technology available. SO to get the HP books in ebook format and be available to view in new and exciting products means their always a market and if that market looks good you might just find yourself updating your library again ;-) Last edited by DigiPaperShop; 09-11-2007 at 11:41 AM. Reason: fat fingers ;-) |
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As I understand it, sometimes an author will be required to sign away eBook rights along with the print rights. I wouldn't expect that from Rowling (at least, not after Philosopher's Stone....) but you never know as far as what the contracts say about who owns the rights. A better source: http://januarymagazine.com/2007/02/n...k-planned.html Quote:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/art...lly_nixed.html Quote:
So, as of February, it wasn't in the works. Can that change? Sure. (And thanks to Nick for the above quotes - it's not impossible that the environment is changing.) But the above is at least one solid citation of Rowling not being in favor of eBooks. And, in the first-post article snips - yes, economics plays a big part in it. But something also tells me that Rowling ain't hurting for cash. At any rate, what I'm seeing as clear is that it's Ms. Rowling's decision about making an eBook happen - not Bloomsbury. (Though they and Warner Brothers might also have input into any such decision.) Last edited by LaughingVulcan; 09-11-2007 at 07:31 PM. |
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Thanks, these are much better references than what we usually see in discussions about Rowling and possible ebooks.
The quote from a lawyer working for Rowling's agent could still have been ambiguous (an agent could be conveying the results of negotiations with the publisher in which the publisher didn't want to support ebooks), but the remarks about Rowling's preference for her readers to experience the books on paper are more clear. However, I wish we could find the source for these remarks. A couple of media sources have repeated the claim that the author wants people to experience the books on paper, but I can't find an actual interview containing such a statement. I keep wondering if it's an urban myth. Yes, she apparently does write longhand, but is that necessarily related? |
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I must admit that I don't see how you can translate that into "definitely no e-Book editions". The fact that the rights haven't currently been licensed does not remove the possibility of them being licensed in the future.
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