Dan Brown’s fans have waited six long years for “The Lost Symbol”,
his follow-up to the megablockbuster novel “The Da Vinci Code” that is being published in hardcover on Sept. 15.
Will those who want to read it in e-book form wait a little longer?
It is a question that Mr. Brown’s publisher, the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, is weighing as it plans the rollout of what it hopes will be a book-selling sensation. The publisher has announced a first hardcover run of five million copies, but Suzanne Herz, a spokeswoman for Knopf Doubleday, said the publisher had not decided when to release an electronic version.
Article looks at how publishers are timing the release of their ebook editions so they don’t cannibalize hardcover sales.
Scanners ready?
Ok – so as e-book lover, I know have to wait for a book pirate to buy the physical book, scan it page by page, upload it to Usenet before I can read it on my e-book reader… Instead of me paying the publisher say $15 to get the e-book? 😉
Way to go publishers!
– the obnoxious librarian (http://olfh.blogspot.com)
Usenet?
I suppose that in the realm of the OLFH that Usenet is still used. Stateside it seems to be regarded as anachronistic as Morse code and MARC21. My killfile isn’t set up well enough to handle all the spam.
What part of the alt.* hierarchy would you even seek such out in?
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Stephen Michael Kellat, MSLS
PGP KeyID: DC5A625B
Usenet
Stephen,
Well, Usenet in Europe is the same well kept secret. And I like it that way 😉 But if you were looking for books, alt.binaries.e-books would be a place to start…
And with Usenet you have less worry about your data being shared like with p2p.
But to make me sound even more old-skool, the largest amount of ebookz can be found via IRC. But then, sites like Feedbooks.com and Mobileread are currently my favorite… all the great classics plus lots of original free e-books. All free and all legal.
best,
Dennie