Wired News has an interesting story about a site called Rosetta Books which provides e-books on backlisted print titles. A pretty strange concept, but hey, you never know…
\”Rosettabooks currently owns the exclusive electronic rights to 100 classics such as Aldous Huxley\’s Brave New World, Kurt Vonnegut\’s Slaughterhouse Five, William Styron\’s Sophie\’s Choice, and Pat Conroy\’s Prince of Tides.
Over 500 more titles are in various states of negotiation and an additional 1,000 have been targeted for acquisition. Strategic alliances with BN.com for a Rosettabooks boutique and prominence on the Contentville.com site are already in place.\”
There are a few other stories there too.
Wired News has an interesting story about a site called Rosetta Books which provides e-books on backlisted print titles. A pretty strange concept, but hey, you never know…
\”Rosettabooks currently owns the exclusive electronic rights to 100 classics such as Aldous Huxley\’s Brave New World, Kurt Vonnegut\’s Slaughterhouse Five, William Styron\’s Sophie\’s Choice, and Pat Conroy\’s Prince of Tides.
Over 500 more titles are in various states of negotiation and an additional 1,000 have been targeted for acquisition. Strategic alliances with BN.com for a Rosettabooks boutique and prominence on the Contentville.com site are already in place.\”
There are a few other stories there too.
\”Rosettabooks will be delivered uniformly across all emerging technology platforms, so that a reader using Adobe will have the same e-reading experience as a reader using a PDA.\”
\”But the company is not merely digitizing text. On its website and within each e-book, hyperlinks connect to lists of author biographies, related critical essays, popular articles of interest and even movie tie-ins when appropriate.\”
\”We\’re providing book lovers with a comprehensive e-reading experience that takes full advantage of the Internet and its possibilities by contextualizing the original work,\” Klebanoff said.\”
\”The Rosettabooks model is based on the undisputed strength of backlists, which Klebanoff suggests, account for 50 percent of publishers\’ profits. For instance, every year over 100,000 copies of Brave New World are sold.\”
\”Rosettabooks is offering a standard royalty of 25 percent of the cover price for purchases made at its site and 25 percent of receipts for books sold at a third-party site like BN.com.\”
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