Comments on: Publishing’s Future may be a Paradigm Shift http://www.mlvwrites.com/2009/06/publishings-future-may-be-a-paradigm-shift.html Monica Valentinelli: Author, Game Designer and Consultant Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:06:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Rocky Shields http://www.mlvwrites.com/2009/06/publishings-future-may-be-a-paradigm-shift.html/comment-page-1#comment-3130 Rocky Shields Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:50:10 +0000 http://www.mlvwrites.com/?p=812#comment-3130 The biggest problem I have with e-books is the speed at which I read. With a Hardcover, Tradepaperback, or Mass Market Paperback my reading speed is 150 pages per hour. On YA its about 200 per hour since there are fewer words. My reading speed on my Sony E-Reader or Adobe's Digital E-Reader for my computer is only about 75-100 words per hour. This is due to having to click to get to the next page which breaks my flow. I have been buying more independent writers work in e-book format from websites like Smashwords over the last year or so. I also do e-book if I've never read the author before and their isn't a copy at my local used book store. The biggest problem I have with e-books is the speed at which I read. With a Hardcover, Tradepaperback, or Mass Market Paperback my reading speed is 150 pages per hour. On YA its about 200 per hour since there are fewer words. My reading speed on my Sony E-Reader or Adobe’s Digital E-Reader for my computer is only about 75-100 words per hour. This is due to having to click to get to the next page which breaks my flow. I have been buying more independent writers work in e-book format from websites like Smashwords over the last year or so. I also do e-book if I’ve never read the author before and their isn’t a copy at my local used book store.

]]> By: Elizabeth Burton http://www.mlvwrites.com/2009/06/publishings-future-may-be-a-paradigm-shift.html/comment-page-1#comment-3103 Elizabeth Burton Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:20:02 +0000 http://www.mlvwrites.com/?p=812#comment-3103 Speculating on the viability of ebooks is pointless because no one has actual data on total sales. There is and has been for longer than a decade a thriving "underground" of independent ebook-only publishers who in some cases only reluctantly move to print to please their authors. For these companies, ebooks are 85-100% of their sales, and they do sufficiently well to pay staff and maintain a market presence. This has always been the problem when any discussion of the "future" of ebooks arises--that all the focus is on how well the mainstream houses are doing with it. Not only they a day late and a dollar short (as most indie publishers are much more consumer friendly and offer no-DRM, multi-format books), but they insist on trying to re-invent a wheel that's been spinning quite well for a long time. Speculating on the viability of ebooks is pointless because no one has actual data on total sales. There is and has been for longer than a decade a thriving “underground” of independent ebook-only publishers who in some cases only reluctantly move to print to please their authors.

For these companies, ebooks are 85-100% of their sales, and they do sufficiently well to pay staff and maintain a market presence.

This has always been the problem when any discussion of the “future” of ebooks arises–that all the focus is on how well the mainstream houses are doing with it. Not only they a day late and a dollar short (as most indie publishers are much more consumer friendly and offer no-DRM, multi-format books), but they insist on trying to re-invent a wheel that’s been spinning quite well for a long time.

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