Comments on: Hooray for Fictionwise! Multi-format e-books rule! http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/hooray-for-fictionwise-multi-format-e-books-rule/ 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: Roger Sperberg http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/hooray-for-fictionwise-multi-format-e-books-rule/comment-page-1/#comment-1014155 Roger Sperberg Sat, 21 Feb 2009 17:27:42 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=17316#comment-1014155 Is Amazon turning away e-books without DRM? At TOC, Cory Doctorow said that's what happened with "Little Brother" (and the water is muddied now about this with denials). I wonder if Paul's discovery about Eon is another case of a publisher/author supplying a DRM-less e-book and Amazon refusing to carry it . . . "Eon" was published in 1991 and it might be a strategic marketing decision to make an author's early works easier to disseminate in order to build readership who'll buy the latest books. So Amazon's alleged policy could be detrimental to what publishers and authors believe are their best interests even if they agree about DRM-ing current work. Roger PS: And, of course, it could just be the publisher hasn't gotten around to getting "Eon" up on the Kindle site . . . Is Amazon turning away e-books without DRM?

At TOC, Cory Doctorow said that’s what happened with “Little Brother” (and the water is muddied now about this with denials).

I wonder if Paul’s discovery about Eon is another case of a publisher/author supplying a DRM-less e-book and Amazon refusing to carry it . . .

“Eon” was published in 1991 and it might be a strategic marketing decision to make an author’s early works easier to disseminate in order to build readership who’ll buy the latest books.

So Amazon’s alleged policy could be detrimental to what publishers and authors believe are their best interests even if they agree about DRM-ing current work.

Roger

PS: And, of course, it could just be the publisher hasn’t gotten around to getting “Eon” up on the Kindle site . . .

]]> By: Bruce http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/hooray-for-fictionwise-multi-format-e-books-rule/comment-page-1/#comment-1013994 Bruce Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:01:13 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=17316#comment-1013994 Webscriptions has the following Greg Bear novels in an $18 bundle, and of course, Webscriptions doesn't sell any books with DRM. Sleepside Beyond Heaven's River Blood Music Dinosaur Summer Webscriptions has the following Greg Bear novels in an $18 bundle, and of course, Webscriptions doesn’t sell any books with DRM.

Sleepside
Beyond Heaven’s River
Blood Music
Dinosaur Summer

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