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Aspiring Writers Info: The Complaint Department, or, The Price of Ebooks
The latest eruption on eBook pricing happened over at John Scalzi's blog today. Basically, someone flew through on a Big Idea post and said they would not buy the book because of the price of the eBook. John feels that this is a useless endeavor, since the author has no control over the cost of the eBook, pricing is off-topic, it's mean to the author, and he's tired of the whole business. So he'll be deleting future such flybys on his blog.
Over on Dear Author, fans who feel that pricing should be discussed everywhere, every time, because price is IMPORTANT and NYC eBooks cost too much are having a jolly donnybrook. In their world, the publisher doesn't care and the author is accessible, so they go to the author.
Writer Ilona Andrews has kindly taken a moment out of their writing time (a deadline looms in the headlights) and uses some simple, effective metaphors (and possibly a simile; I wasn't counting) to explain that an author can hope to impact a lot of things at their publisher. But the cost of eBooks? Rare to Never is the chance of anything happening.
I'm perfectly willing to discuss eBooks prices over fluids at a convention, but we don't need to start on this blog. I can impact my self-published SF novels, and at least one of them is currently on sale at each of my three major retailers. So if you want to discuss this, there are three links above with plenty of folk to converse with on the topic.
I'm posting this as a service to fledgling writers. There is controversy -- be aware.
Over on Dear Author, fans who feel that pricing should be discussed everywhere, every time, because price is IMPORTANT and NYC eBooks cost too much are having a jolly donnybrook. In their world, the publisher doesn't care and the author is accessible, so they go to the author.
Writer Ilona Andrews has kindly taken a moment out of their writing time (a deadline looms in the headlights) and uses some simple, effective metaphors (and possibly a simile; I wasn't counting) to explain that an author can hope to impact a lot of things at their publisher. But the cost of eBooks? Rare to Never is the chance of anything happening.
I'm perfectly willing to discuss eBooks prices over fluids at a convention, but we don't need to start on this blog. I can impact my self-published SF novels, and at least one of them is currently on sale at each of my three major retailers. So if you want to discuss this, there are three links above with plenty of folk to converse with on the topic.
I'm posting this as a service to fledgling writers. There is controversy -- be aware.
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