Comments on: Book View Cafe offers free fiction, other goodies: Ursula Le Guin, other luminaries among BVG writers http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/book-view-cafe-opens-for-business-free-business-that-is/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:05:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rob Preece http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/book-view-cafe-opens-for-business-free-business-that-is/comment-page-1/#comment-967774 Rob Preece Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:16:31 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=13750#comment-967774 The world of out-of-print books does constitute a significant opportunity for publishers and authors. This opportunity has been under-stressed partly because of complicated rights issues. Many old contracts call for rights to revert to the author after the book goes out of print. As the publisher no longer owns the rights, they simply can't put out the book. As the author isn't a publisher, these out-of-print books often languish--especially where the opportunity is small enough that it isn't worth an agent's while to track down a small publisher interested in out-of-print books. At BooksForABuck.com, we do offer authors an opportunity to re-issue their out-of-print books, with attractive new covers, additional editing, and affordable prices. However, I've noticed that re-issued books tend to sell less well than new content. Best of luck to BookView Cafe. Rob Preece Publisher, www.BooksForABuck.com The world of out-of-print books does constitute a significant opportunity for publishers and authors. This opportunity has been under-stressed partly because of complicated rights issues. Many old contracts call for rights to revert to the author after the book goes out of print. As the publisher no longer owns the rights, they simply can’t put out the book. As the author isn’t a publisher, these out-of-print books often languish–especially where the opportunity is small enough that it isn’t worth an agent’s while to track down a small publisher interested in out-of-print books.

At BooksForABuck.com, we do offer authors an opportunity to re-issue their out-of-print books, with attractive new covers, additional editing, and affordable prices. However, I’ve noticed that re-issued books tend to sell less well than new content.

Best of luck to BookView Cafe.

Rob Preece
Publisher, http://www.BooksForABuck.com

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