Following on from the earlier blog about Simon and Schuster and Harper and Collins siging new deals with Kindle it appeared that all was going much more smoothly in the kindle camp....but this may not be the case. The following. The following statement was releassed by Amazon Kindle
"We recently signed an “agency” agreement with Hachette and we are working with them to offer their books under these terms in the coming days. This means we will not be selling Hachette ebooks in the interim. Update: Hachette has disallowed the sale of ebooks except on agency terms effective as of 12:01 am this morning. We came to terms late last night but we cannot be operationally ready to sell their ebooks on agency terms until two days from now — April 3 — when we will also cut over for the other publishers that are switching to agency. If we can get a two day extension from Hachette to continue selling their ebooks under the prior terms, we can have the Hachette ebooks promptly back for sale today. If not, then they will be back on April 3"
What do you think?
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I think what will happen eventually is that if the ebooks threaten to overtake the printed word (cue environmental arguments), you will end up subscribing to a service that provides you with books in genres you subscribe to.
ReplyDeleteThey'll just be downloaded to your account, or some such.
Imagine that? I wireless 3G device that you pay $10 a month or whatever; you turn it on and hey, presto! Books to read. For the Lazy Y's out there, that'll be awesome.
Also, I just got tea.
Tea on your wireless device....now there's a development worth thinking about
ReplyDeleteThere's an app for it, I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteConsidering the likely market for eBooks, it'll need to produce low-fat lattes and a variety of small cakes, however.
I like the idea of the automatic download for the genre you like, however would'nt that overload your reader? May be you could programme it to download your favourite authors latest releases - now that's something worth looking at - maybe we should go into the "apps" production business...
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