Comments on: The Format Wars Part Two UPDATE!

By: Death Of A Business Model Part Three | The Naughty Bits

Death Of A Business Model Part Three | The Naughty Bits — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:59:47 +0000

[...] So have we not heard this whole thing before recently? You know the whole “They are discounting our hardcovers stop them Mr. Government Policeman!” even over in other countries. Oh and the other thing they want to do is delay eBooks while they try and sell hardcovers. [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:00:51 +0000

Liked this Gizmodo article. Let me sum up: "Huh, that book isn't available. Well, pooey on you, publisher, I'll just go buy a different ebook, 'cos I ain't gonna hop in my car to buy a stoopid hardcover."

By: December 2009: Here Is Why Traditional Publishing Just Died… | The Naughty Bits

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:22:56 +0000

[...] Hardcover book hurt the chances of the author of that BRAND NEW Hardcover book making any profit by delaying the availability of an eBook format for the next 8 months while that guys new file is sitting on [...]

By: TeddyPig

TeddyPig — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:42:49 +0000

I think there is commentary like that if you read up on Pulp Westerns and Pulp Fiction. Those were where the paperbacks really started out at and yes it took a while for Publishers to invest in them which is why Penguin became associated with the term paperback and then Pocket Books came out. The first original works to show up started the whole genre craze with Sci-fi and Romance etc etc.

Woolworths the discount store (Sound familiar?) was the first company to put them out on sale.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:27:05 +0000

Oh yeah. If there was a ebook copy of a new book, I might buy it. No way will I buy a hardcover, unless it’s something damned special – the last one I bought was an autographed copy of The Graveyard Book. Anyway, this change to “protect” the hardcover market loses that ebook sale and sends me off to the library instead of purchasing.

Interesting that, since buying my ereader in April, I’ve purchased more books (ebooks)/spent more on books than I have in any other year of my life. Ebook publishers are providing things I want to read, at more or less reasonable prices, and that I can’t get from the library.

I’d love to read something comparing the arrival of the paperback with the arrival of the ebook – I have to imagine that hardcover publishers were tossing similar language about.

By: TeddyPig

TeddyPig — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:06:59 +0000

OMG Chris that article $300 HardCover pirating is here… OMG!

Yep this is a bad year for Traditional Publishing.

By: TeddyPig

TeddyPig — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:37:24 +0000

Yeah I loved how Kassia slammed the old fucker with the “see how easy it is for me to Google a pirate copy of your precious Hardcover old man”.

That is the unfortunate fact of life. These publishers make the author go out and play Little Dutch Boy most of the time with the online piracy. They have not invested in tracking software or anything and I don’t think the idiots are planning on it either. Now they are playing this game undermining authors potential profits further and basically blowing their companies up in the process and making a mess of Traditional Publishing because they do not get it.

I honestly do not see the upside for the authors I would so be heading for the hills and not letting these guys have ANY DIGITAL RIGHTS AT ALL despite the advances. Simply do not let them have your DIGITAL RIGHTS because they are proving they do not know how to maximize those profits.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:09:48 +0000

Seems like they'd be wisest to get their own ebook versions out there when they release the hardcover... make it easier to buy an ebook than to track down a scanned copy (esp with developments like this in book scanning), or they're really shooting themselves in the foot/feet...