Nope. Not the way things are headed at all. Epublishing is just another convenient way to get your books. As far as us small press writers are concerned it holds the same pitfalls as non-epublished books. They can be and are returned. And more times than not. Yep! Kindle's the worst. You have seven days to read a kindle, decide you don't like then return it. Oh and you can leave a pitiful review to boot and it will stay with the book even though you returned it to get your money back.
Bottom line, I don't want to hear one more person GRIPE because they spent 99 cents for a freakin' book they didn't like. Go ahead. Send it back!!!! You've got seven days. Us small pub authors aren't going to make any money anyway. It's the same ol' same ol'. Big publishers will do fine. No other publisher will. Thanks Amazon. You so rock as usual.
LOL I'm just sick of seeing authors looking to e-books as if they are their salvation. The publishing industry is broke and has been for some time. The same problems still exist even with e-books. NO difference at all. You may sell a few more but you're not going to get anywhere. At least you'll feel like your moving though. LOL
ReplyDeleteLOL It's too bad it won't bring the larger brick & mortar stores to their knees. Something sure needs to. But sadly, that won't happen anytime soon. It's sad to see ebook publishing operating under the same rules designed to help a crippled industry during the depression. Very sad indeed.
ReplyDeleteThe larger bookstores will NEVER be anything other than an outlet for the larger publishers to get their work out there period.
Small presses can forget about it. They can't succeed under that bogus return policy among other things.