No big post here--just a note that Hachette (formerly Time Warner Books) has sided with MacMillan and HarperCollins against Amazon and its $9.99 price for ebooks. People may bail, and people may rail, but if the price goes up everywhere except among the indies, people will pay $14.99 or abandon books altogether. Satellite radio is failing but cable TV took off. E-books, whether Kindle or iPad, but figure out what they're offering, what makes them unique, other than the price (given the price of the e-readers!), that makes people want to buy them. Could they go like videos -- unreleased chapters? An earlier draft? Backstory? Added character biographies? Most authors would scream at this. There's a reason such things get cut from novels, but added to videos--novels are meant to be complete, movies rarely. And I bet the "making of" would be really boring...
Well, welcome to the good fight Hachette. Hope this all works out for everyone, especially the authors and their readers.
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