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Ebooks Do Wacky Things
For instance, all of the currently translated novels by Jose Saramago, plus one novella, (that’s 13 books) for $36.
I think I’d still rather own them as real books, but you have to admit that for people who have never owned Saramago before but have a burning desire to own all of his books, this represents an excellent value. But whatever . . . publishing isn’t about actually getting people to read books. It’s about selling enough good books to permit yourself to continue publishing good books, for those people who do read them.
And in case you missed it, I recently pondered the Saramago yet to come. And The Quarterly Conversation recently reviewed one Saramago book not in this 13-book deal pack.
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- The Saramago to Come One of the nice things about translation is that a reader can still have a steady stream of very good material from an author, even...
- Shoddy eBooks Looks like publishers are getting dinged for outsourcing ebooks to third-parties who do shoddy jobs: Needless to say, poor quality e-books are becoming something of...
- Harper Studio on ebooks Harper Studio is supposed to be a "new" kind of publisher. Forget those fat advances and celebrity memoirs . . . Harper Studio is all...
- Wellbeck, err Houellebecq Among the things you will learn in this good SF Chronicle article on Michel Houellebecq: Houellebecq is pronounced Wellback (or so they tell us) Houellebecq...
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