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scubadoc51
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| Posted 6/5/2005 1:15 PM (GMT -4) |   | For anyone who may not have seen it.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=509&e=3&u=/ap/bookexpo_america
Tim
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Daniel
Carl Jung's Waterboy
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| Posted 6/5/2005 1:20 PM (GMT -4) | | I was just there at the expo in NYC.
Thanks for the link.
Daniel
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ragemachine
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| Posted 6/10/2005 5:35 AM (GMT -4) | | I read this item when it was first posted and it got me thinking. At first I thought "No more readers?" then I thought about it more carefully. It isn't saying that but that "browsers" are a dying breed. People still want to read but they find browsing inconvenient. I don't suppose any of this should be surprising. You have so many choices now: book clubs, ebooks, POD paperback, plus all the old ones. It sounds like people are getting more and more "targeted" about their books. They want a specific book, not to browse until they find something. This is both good and bad. It's good if you sell books through targeted advertising. It's bad if you are anew author and you are hoping to have people find you by accident, to pick you up because they happened across you. That's going to happen a lot less. The world of books is rapidly evolving despite cries to the contrary by some. What worries me is that eventually the only people who will be able to sell a book will those who own their own talk shows.
GW
G. W. Thomas has appeared in over 350 different books, magazines and ezines including Black October Magazine, Writer's Digest and The Armchair Detective.
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scubadoc51
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| Posted 6/10/2005 6:48 AM (GMT -4) | | Everytime I go to my local B&N I see stacks of books behind the check-out counter waiting for people to pick them up. I talked to one of the clerks who confirmed exactly that. These days, most of the browsing is done at the magazine rack. It seems that the industry is in a state of flux and it's eventual direction is unknown to anyone. With all the advances in electronics, there's no telling how long paper books have. I doube they'll ever go away, but then not that many years ago businesses didn't think rooms full of files would go away either.
Yes, it's a pain for the writers, but we had to expect book buying to change along with everything else.
Tim
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ragemachine
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| Posted 6/11/2005 12:00 PM (GMT -4) | | It is a pain in some ways but very exciting in others. If corporate America has its way only four people would ever write a book: Dr. Phil, Oprah, J. K. Rowling and Stephen King. (I'm being ridiculous of course. I forgot Anne Rice.) These changes in book publishing represent an opportunity to see a return of the middle list, specialty publishing, and things we haven't even imagined yet. A genre like Sword & Sorcery (deemed unprofitable by most fantasy publishers) will see a resurgence as more S&S becomes available through the small press fueled by POD and other technical innovations. New fans will have a chance to discover older, so called "forgotten" authors. This is my hope, anyway.
GW
G. W. Thomas has appeared in over 350 different books, magazines and ezines including Black October Magazine, Writer's Digest and The Armchair Detective.
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ghostposts
Acolyte
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| Posted 6/15/2005 5:20 AM (GMT -4) | | Hopefully, publishers will continue to offer books in more than one format.
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ragemachine
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| Posted 6/15/2005 6:16 AM (GMT -4) | | The latest Yahoo article says J. K. Rowling won't do ebooks. The children's market just hasn't embraced it. (I'm not surprised. How many 10 year olds have a palm pilot?) They also said more ebooks were bought than in previous years but fewer were published. Could just be winnowing out the fly-by-nighters, I suppose.
GW
G. W. Thomas has appeared in over 350 different books, magazines and ezines including Black October Magazine, Writer's Digest and The Armchair Detective.
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Angeline Hawkes
I am Ripper…Tearer…Slasher…Gouger.
Date Joined Nov 2004
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| Posted 7/28/2005 10:16 AM (GMT -4) | | My son [who is 8] was lamenting the lack of kid e-books a few weeks ago. His theory is, most of the books he reads, he reads once and has no desire to read again. He figures he could buy and read a lot more books on his allowance if he 1) could buy ebooks and 2) didn't have to rely on a "growed up" to take him some place to buy a book. He's very computer savy. Unfortunately, the books we do find in e-bk format for children, are educational or in a beginning reading format designed to teach. I keep telling him to hang in there. Of course, at 8, he's now reading at a 5th-6th grade reading level instead of at his age level, so he'll surpass children's fiction probably within a year or two anyway. He just finished Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde so he's about a half school year away from devouring the classics.
I like to see my work appear in as many formats as possible. A sort of covering my bases method of being published. Especially if I see my work go out of print, I try very hard to find another publisher that will at least keep it in e-book format until I can resell the print rights. I hate letting something die out after only a few years when I know the work hasn't reached its full potential.
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