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Started: 13:50:10 - Mar 8, 2009 by: BooksForABuck

This forum is designed to let readers and authors communicate with publishers. I suspect I'm speaking for all of the publishers here when I say that we're only in business because authors write what we publish and because readers love it. So, let us know. What publisher have you discovered that you just love? What publisher bent over backwards to help you get your wonderful thousand page opus into shape to be published? What you you love to see that you just aren't seeing in the world of eBooks?

Let us know--if you check out the people listing in this loop, you'll see some head honchos--this is definitely your place to see and be seen

created: 07:04:45 - Mar 15, 2009 by: catjohnson

Here's a topic for publisher discussion. DRM. I am the moderator for the All Romance eBooks' Bookclub, and each month, I read the selected book then interview the author live on air on the What's Hot In Romance BlogTalkRadio show. I recently purchased the iPod Touch so I can read eBooks on that rather than constantly being tied to my laptop since I spend far too many hours on that already. Unfortunately, the BookClub picks have been DRM recently, which means I can't load them onto my iTouch. AND, to further tick me off, I finally decided to read a few eBooks I downloaded (bought and paid for) from eHarlquin about 2 years ago and discovered I nolonger have the rights to do so. Why? I dared to buy a new laptop and the books were downloaded originally on my old laptop.

So, though I respect some publishers' goals of trying to prevent eBook piracy, I am finding that the only person who is being prevented from reading my eBooks is ME! Perhaps a nice pirate will supply me with DRM-free copies of the books I bought and can't read.

Cat Johnson

created: 03:19:47 - Apr 13, 2009 by: Zetta

I guess it depends on where you shop. Fictionwise and LightningSource provide DRM'd ebooks. But some publishers, like LL-Publications/Logical-Lust, do not. So it may be worth buying direct from the publisher and finding out if their books are DRM.

created: 08:56:11 - Jun 5, 2009 by: BooksForABuck

DRM is a complicated issue--something eBook experts spend countless hours arguing about. Bottom lines: (1) people won't pay if they can get it for free.
(2) DRM makes it a little harder to get for free.
(3) DRM adds a level of undesirable complexity to the reading experience, as well as adding cost to the publishing process.

At BooksForABuck.com, we don't DRM our books, and our books offered through All Romance and Fictionwise don't have DRM. I respect publishers who make the other choice--and readers who decide how to let DRM influence their purchasing decisions.

Rob Preece
Publisher, www.BooksForABuck.com

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