Publishers aren’t content to ride gently into the sunset. No, they’re trying to piss off everyone at once and prove how irrelevant they are.
On a recent TWIT, Jerry Pournelle said that if he does another book it will not be with a publisher.
Publishing is dead. All that’s left is the stink.
My publisher is an imprint of Simon and Schuster, and they’ve been “in negotations” with Amazon for a Kindle version of my book for close to two years.
Next book, I’m holding out to retain digital book right and film/TV rights.
Got lines up here on Clevenet also, which Breda’s Library System is a part of. But here’s another Pisser. Tried to transfer some Pratchett’s DiscWorld from my Kindle to the Wife’s new Fire. Got a Warning that the Publisher said I couldn’t give the Book that I bought and is my Property away, and she needs to buy her OWN Copy. But If I bought the Dead Tree Version, and handed it to her, they can’t say squat.
Remember a decade or so ago where these Media Conglomerate’s said we couldn’t Copy Videos which we bought or got off the Airwaves and give them away? Didn’t a Law get passed telling them that they were full of Shit and to Cease and Desist?
Screw those Bastards!
Yep, they are on their last legs because they won’t cooperate, and good riddance!
I work with a dead-tree non-fiction publisher and things seem to be going well. That said, academic-type book publishing is a whole separate world from popular fiction. Possibly a separate galaxy – sort of the Larger Magellanic Cloud of publishing.