tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954486699810607306.post4195720145469288509..comments2023-11-02T02:40:48.410-07:00Comments on Crime Fiction Collective: I've Seen the Future and It's Not That ScaryL.J. Sellershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10213491074676394406noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954486699810607306.post-78073607613396005382011-06-04T00:00:29.287-07:002011-06-04T00:00:29.287-07:00I've said this before, but it seems I can'...I've said this before, but it seems I can't say it enough: The publishing model as we once knew it is quickly becoming a thing of the past. The industry has reinvented itself--and in the process, breathed new life into it-- thanks to visionaries like Jeff Bezos and Amazon. Gone are the gatekeepers who kept a tight lid on things and prevented so many people from seeing their works published. No longer is this a publisher's market--it now belongs to the readers and writers. As it should.ANDREW E. KAUFMANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08835920472268730244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954486699810607306.post-71310042687300143722011-06-03T20:09:30.779-07:002011-06-03T20:09:30.779-07:00LJ, you've hit it with the mention of distribu...LJ, you've hit it with the mention of distribution. My publishers all have different models, but none really puts the print books out there. My first 2 publishers were e-book first, then print, but this was long before Amazon was the powerhouse it is now, and e-readers were pretty much PDA type devices. I have the rights to a number of my books, and I'm busy adding them to all the digital stores.<br /><br />Terry<br /><a href="http://terryodell.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Terry's Place</a>Terry Odellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11610682530545306687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954486699810607306.post-66424002043568390812011-06-03T19:28:31.796-07:002011-06-03T19:28:31.796-07:00Melissa, I worry about small publishing companies ...Melissa, I worry about small publishing companies too. Many of my friends are either small press publishers or authors. But the truth is, no one needs a small press. You either need a big press for the distribution or to be your publisher for the higher royalty. Everything in the middle seems like a dead end.L.J. Sellershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10213491074676394406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954486699810607306.post-45842610156543344832011-06-03T19:25:28.115-07:002011-06-03T19:25:28.115-07:00Terry, you make me smile. Has it really been five ...Terry, you make me smile. Has it really been five years? I wish I had realized the potential of e-books when I put The Sex Club up on Amazon's DTP all those years ago. Now, I'm trying to think ahead all the time.L.J. Sellershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10213491074676394406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954486699810607306.post-80298369927770691702011-06-03T18:18:05.213-07:002011-06-03T18:18:05.213-07:00LJ, when I met you five years ago, I didn't re...LJ, when I met you five years ago, I didn't really think of you as a futurist, but you surely are! You sniffed the wind and went with e-pubs long before most. Congratultions on being right (doesn't it feel good?)Terry Shameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07202071611825887999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954486699810607306.post-59529717234110386372011-06-03T17:32:56.902-07:002011-06-03T17:32:56.902-07:00Thanks for this cutting-edge post, LJ. Between edi...Thanks for this cutting-edge post, LJ. Between editing and trying to get my garden and yard in shape for the summer, and, for the last week, fighting a bronchial infection, the world out there has sort of gone by without me. I poke my head out of the sand and find out things are changing even faster than I thought! Great news for all my fiction-writing clients! <br /><br />Thanks for keeping up with things for the rest of us, LJ! I'm passing this on through Facebook, Twitter and my email list as soon as I post this. (That is, if Google lets me, which they don't seem to do lately!)Jodie Rennerhttp://www.jodierennerediting.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954486699810607306.post-71449189536127486302011-06-03T13:47:33.401-07:002011-06-03T13:47:33.401-07:00As an author who has self-published (including ebo...As an author who has self-published (including ebooks) for more than a decade, I am pleased with the changes taking place in the publishing world. After being shunned by many agents, publishers, and denied membership in authors’ groups, and while predicting almost a decade ago that ebooks and self-publishing would be our future, I am pleased to have it happening now.<br /><br />Last November I wrote about how visionary Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos is. In a post on my blog, www.mydropsofink.blogspot.com: <br /> “Build it and they will come, and Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com has done just that. Bezos had a dream, a dream to build the biggest bookstore in the world. Looks like he has achieved that. It is now said that about three quarters of book sales in the United States are at Amazon, and even publishers make about half of their sales through Amazon.”<br /><br />I find it all very exciting. It has given me the opportunity, also, to keep many of my late husband’s best-selling novels in print, as ebooks and PODs. <br /><br />What will happen in 5 years or 10 years?--who knows?--look what our Internet technology has given us over these last 15 years. Incredible!Linda Pendletonhttp://mydropsofink.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954486699810607306.post-65221898382482228462011-06-03T09:38:18.437-07:002011-06-03T09:38:18.437-07:00As a creator of ebooks, I rejoice. As an editor at...As a creator of ebooks, I rejoice. As an editor at a small publishing company, I worry.Melissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15244004664612029086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4954486699810607306.post-35872755180238802032011-06-03T06:41:05.983-07:002011-06-03T06:41:05.983-07:00Also last week, didn't MWA ammend their rules ...Also last week, didn't MWA ammend their rules finally acknowledging e-books? They have a way to go to include bestselling novelists like you, but it's a step, I think.<br /><br />It's an exciting time, and you are showing both writers and readers how to do things right.Peg Brantleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04906858123466177508noreply@blogger.com