Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.
From Michael A. Stackpole
Authors will make far more on those ebooks through direct sales than publishers are offering. There is no incentive for authors to sell those rights to traditional publishers which means, in the fairly short term, publishers run out of material to sell.
Higher ebook prices only benefit one group: publishers.
Prior to 2009, when publishers scoffed at the ebook market, they offered writers contracts which gave us half of the money they made off ebook sales.
Higher ebook prices don't benefit me, booksellers or readers, and that means something is really wrong.
Choosing to publish work electronically myself is really a no-brainer.
There is no denying the aesthetics of a well-made, well-loved book.
It has been aptly noted that web browsers are less Internet navigation tools than they are ebooks with highly diverse content.
The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct.
I certainly knew of 'World of Warcraft'; I had never actually played because I knew that if I started playing, I would never get any work done - because it would just totally absorb me.
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