Book Wise, Rings of Saturn and Lee Child
Submitted by Bruce K. Hollingdrake on Sunday, 10 February 20082 Comments
Here are some interesting tidbits found around the web. Hope you like..
Looks like Harlequin is getting into the eBook game with an new imprint called Nocturne Bites. Shorter, fast-paced vampire stuff. Should be a nice fit for that format. Check out Vanessa Giunta’s blog for more info…
Have you heard of BookWise yet? It’s a Network Marketing system designed around selling books. Michael Lieberman, who always has very informative posts on the book world, brings us some insight.
An interview with crime writer Lee Child
One of our regular Link List sites is BookRide. I just love the blog. Great posts on interesting books in a very digestable format. Here is his take on Rings of Saturn by W G Sebald.
I think the ease of access, lower cost, and easy disposability of ebooks will make the more mass market style of fiction books the ones most likely to do well enough on devices like the Amazon Kindle to make them the major part of its market. For different reasons, I think there is the possibility that college textbooks might make this transition also. Generally though, I think that the book format is so convenient that it will endure, especially for better books that individuals would want to keep personal copies of to return be able to return to again.
I suspect Harlequin is jumping into the supernatural ebooks because they’re feeling the bite from some other specialty publishers that have been doing this for awhile. Ellora’s Cave has had ebook supernatural romances for awhile. If they’re popular enough, they then print them and send them to main stream booksellers.
It’s a great way to sample the market and see what’s worth a mainstream release. And some of what they’re releasing would blow your mind. Someone brought me a bunch of Ellora’s Cave stuff with the Borders stickers still on the back.
One of them involved egg laying giant men from outer space. And bondage.
Did I mention the EGG LAYING?
did I mention it was part of a series?
The publication data indicated it had been released as an ebook first, then as the mainstream paperback. Never in a million years would I have guessed people were that turned on by that.
The ebook market will let them sample more unusual items and see if there’s enough interest to move them into the mainstream titles.
Ellora’s Cave isn’t the only one doing that in the supernatural category, they’re just one of the larger ones that I see more often.