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Selling Well Is The Best Revenge by Linda Gillard (view source)
Revision as of 14:18, 7 April 2011
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Readers think authors are giving e-books away at silly prices, but the appalling irony is, we're actually making more money this way! That's why some established authors are moving away from mainstream to e-publishing. They can make more money and have artistic control. So authors are rejoicing. The revolution is here!
Personally, I have nothing to fear from the e-publishing revolution. I'll acquire new readers with HOUSE OF SILENCE and they'll turn to my out-of-print back-list, so I'll publish two more e-books, [[Emotional Geology by Linda Gillard|EMOTIONAL GEOLOGY]] and [[A Lifetime Burning by Linda illardGillard|A LIFETIME BURNING]] on Kindle later this year. If editors don't want my fifth novel (finished) or my sixth (work-in-progress), then I'll put them on Kindle. There are plenty of people waiting to read them. (Though not Tesco, obviously.)
I know a lot of my readers would prefer a paper book – to be honest, so would I - so I'm looking into print-on-demand to see whether it could be economic to produce 'limited edition' paperbacks for readers who don't have access to e-books or who want to own 'a proper book'. Those won't come cheap, so it all depends how much readers are prepared to pay to own a paper book.