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People love print
by Jason on 05/11/2010
You've heard it all: Ebooks are the wave of the future. Ebooks will replace print. And on and on. We at Long Tale Press love ebooks for many reasons, and we agree that ebooks are indeed the wave of the future.
But the future isn't quite here yet.
Until it is, we have to deal with right now. Which means doing more books on good old-fashioned paper, because people still love paper. Our experience with This Side of Normal is that the paperback vastly out-sells the ebook, despite costing twice as much.
Moving forward, we will be offering print on a much more regular basis. The details are yet to be worked out, but we lean towards doing at least a small print run for any new title. No promises yet--our final decision may change--but our inclination is to offer print by default unless there's some compelling reason not to.
Along with that, we are in the process of redesigning the books in our catalog with new cover art, new interior book design (we are very fortunate to have a veteran book designer on staff!), in preparation for sending those books to print. Our entire catalog will be available in print sometime this summer.
But, we still love ebooks and ebooks are still the wave of the future, so we're also working hard to expand our distribution options for ebooks. All of our eBooks will soon be available in the industry standard ePub format that will play and reflow on most eReaders (Sony, Nook, iPad, and more). And we are expanding distribution of eBooks through existing commercial channels (Amazon and such).
And to echo something I blogged here a long time ago, our ebooks will continue to be offered with no DRM. We sell books, not licenses. We believe that when you buy a book, you should be able to read it on any device or computer you own. In whatever form, our books are cherished possessions, not licenses to content.
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