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That's because this is the way the contracts they negotiate with their authors are set up to allocate rights, and because that's how they're set up to handle the bookkeeping. (I discussed the financial and structural differences between these markets in CMAP #5.) Ebooks are seen, from a publisher's point of view, as being a new format, to stand beside paperbacks or hardbacks or audio books. Firstly, publishers are used to having multiple sales channels: hardcovers, trade paperbacks, and mass market paperbacks. The publishing industry has been starting from a doubly-handicapped position. The hardware the platform runs on has hitherto been either a PC, or a PDA, or more recently an e-ink based ebook reader, and now (with increasing frequency) a smartphone.ģ. The ePub file format standard is part of a platform, which may be the Sony Reader Store/Adobe Digital Editions, or Apple's iBooks (which is just a variant implementation of ePub), or Stanza.

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Amazon's Kindle software (or reader) is a platform. This device, which may be hardware, software, or both, I shall henceforth refer to as a platform. Ebooks differ from paper books insofar as you need a device to read them with. (Paper and ink are dirt cheap proofreaders and marketing teams aren't.)Ģ.

In particular, about 80-90% of the cover price of a book has nothing to do with the paper and ink object you buy in a shop indeed, using current production standards, ebook production requires nearly as much work as paper book production. Just as a random sampling of 100,000 words is not a novel, so too does a finished book differ from a manuscript (the text an author writes, which forms the core of the book). A manuscript is not the same thing as a book. The lessons I'd like you to draw from those two earlier essays are:ġ.

Then continue below for a round-up of some aspects of the ebook biz that are not immediately evident from the headlines. Secondly, I've got a computer science degree - having graduated in 1990, this makes me about as current as someone with an aeronatical engineering degree issued in 1937 - which qualification, along with several years earning my crust as a programmer and as a computer journalist, has fine-tuned my bullshit detector.īefore I get stuck in, some revision is in order - notably, a re-reading of CMAP 2: How books are made, and my mid-2007 article, Why the Commercial Ebook Market is Broken.

Firstly, I'm an author and some of my books are published through ebook channels. I am coming to this topic from two different angles. And the situation is only going to get worse over the next few years, so strap your safety helmet on tight. Ebooks generate more email to my from my readers than just about any other topic. There is no topic in the publishing industry this decade that is the source of as many misconceptions, superstitions, lies, plausible untruths, and idiocies as ebooks.

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