So it just makes sense that the book industry should get on board and provide both print and ebooks together. DVDs bundle high-definition and standard resolution copies.
The music industry already provides for downloads when purchasing CDs or vinyl albums. They saw their sales triple and have now officially rolled out their Clonefiles program in the United Kingdom and will soon be expanding it to the United States. Readers will not have to choose between print and ebook, and for those who generally buy both, they’ll have more money to spend on additional titles and grow the overall book market.įor those publishers who are afraid this would hurt their sales, I’d like to offer up Angry Robot, who ran a pilot program in August 2012 with a number of independent bookstores, as an example.Authors will benefit from higher discoverability as purchasers can loan out their print books while reading the ebook.Publishers will see higher print sales and increased reader loyalty by showing they are putting the reader’s well-being first.I see this as a win-win for all parties involved. Even publishers who don’t want to enroll all their titles into Kindle MatchBook can selectively try out programs on a book-by-book or author-by-author basis. The fact that I (a solid mid-list author) have been able to secure print-only is encouragement that these deals are working their way more broadly into publishing, but I still think these types of contracts will be few and far between.īut there is another alternative-if publishers would permit their authors the right to distribute (not sell) ebooks with proof-of-print-book purchase, then we can provide this capability to all print purchases, regardless of the venue they were bought in.
#Kindle matchbook price movie#
The fourth is from an author with more than 600,000 sales and a movie deal with Ridley Scott. Three of those five are New York Times bestsellers with more than a million books sold. The only authors that I’m aware of who have signed such deals are Bella Andre, Coleen Hoover, Hugh Howey, Brandon Sanderson (for his novellas Legion & The Emperor’s Soul), and myself. What makes such a program possible is the “print-only deal” which is all so rare in today’s current publishing environment. This will give independent bookstores and the remaining chains such as Barnes & Noble or Books-a-Million a fighting chance against Amazon.
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But I’m going beyond MatchBook by making free ebooks available no matter where the print book is purchased.
Now, because of MatchBook, I’ll have far fewer requests to process, as I’ve enrolled it and set the price to free. My plan was, and is, to provide all the popular ebook formats in DRM-free files to anyone who e-mails me a copy of their receipt. I sold the print rights to Tachyon Publications, the audio book rights to Recorded Books, and I kept the ebook and subsidiary rights. Luckily, I’m in control of the ebook rights for my most recent title, Hollow World. It will be up to my publisher (an imprint of Hachette Book Group) to ultimately determine if this feature is implemented for my titles. So it was with exuberance-but then immediate frustration-that I read the announcement, because I realized that for most of my titles, it probably won’t make a difference. I knew it would be Amazon or Barnes & Noble who would adopt this first (my money was on Amazon as they tend to be more proactive). To me the solution has been obvious: Provide a free ebook for anyone who purchases a print edition. When Amazon announced their Kindle MatchBook program earlier this month, I’m sure I’m not the only person who thought, “It’s about time!”įor the past three years, I’ve watched the industry numbers, and the continuing erosion of print book sales has me worried about the future of print.
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