Over on
barbarienne's LJ, she's posted about a cadre of Kindle owners who are making claims that
the big publishers don't want ebooks to succeed as a viable format for reading. I leave it in her capable hands to debunk that nonsense. However, one comment that I read there, and have seen elsewhere, drives me insane.
The comment is that "printing makes up
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Apart from - literally - a dozen or so exceptions I have bought all of my ebooks from Baen. I have of course got a load of free ones too - from Baen, PG etc. etc ( ... )
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It would be great if U.S. publishers could obtain "World" rights in all of our books, but we can't. If there are separate U.S. and U.K. editions of the book. the U.K. publisher usually gets the European rights. Therefore, the U.S. publisher is legally prohibited from selling to customers in those countries. We have to pass that limitation on to our customers and suppliers.This is a great example of how/why the current publishing model is broken. As a reader, I don't care about the geographic rights thing. This is, bluntly, not my problem except for the fact that it stops my buying the (e)books I want. I don't think the author minds whether I buy a copy of his work from his US publisher or his UK one (assuming the two are different), he just wants a sale and a royalty. Given that most publishers are now multinational entities (Macmillan being owned by a German company for example) the geographic rights issue is just a roadblock that makes it harder for ( ... )
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Sorry, but I just don't think self-publishing is a good strategy for anything but the least risky books, or books with real small audiences (family memoirs, etc.).
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