RE: "The Elusive E-book"

Jon;
 
They are paying you for YOUR take on whatever the topic. The assignment editor wanted your voice to tell the story. Sure, another writer could write the story but it wouldn't be your take on things.
 
And that's what authors do. We (they) tell the story in their own voice so there will always be stories to tell. 
 
Maybe the world doesn't need another Accounting 101 book, but guaranteed, the next author will tell it their own way.
 
That's something to celebrate. 
Aaron J. WalkerPublisher
http://www.walkbroadpublishing.com


To: ebook-community-hHKSG33Tihig7M29m/[email protected]: [email protected]: Tue, 13 May 2008 07:24:24 +1000Subject: Re: [ebook-community] "The Elusive E-book"




But why? If there are a million good pieces to read for free, then readers save millions of dollars. Some of that can go on welfare for out-of-work authors and publishers who can't turn their hands to anything else. Free books don't have to be perfectly substitutable for paid ones, just substitutable enough to give people incentive to switch. You can't wrap fish in a website, but that hasn't stopped the newspapers from going under. All blacksmiths did unique work, but that hasn't kept the profession alive.And it's not simply a paid/free divide. Recently I got paid for writing an article on Joomla for an Australian journal. I can guarantee by the law of averages that someone in London was getting paid for a similar article at the same time. And someone in New York, and someone in Bangalore.
  The only thing that keeps me getting paid is that my publishers haven't yet woken up to the fact that all this material is equally accessible now. It's a race at the moment as to whether they stumble on the woman in Bangalore before she stumbles on them, but whenever that happens I'm going to be out of work.At the moment the world of publishing is one of massive redundancy. Should we act like selfish unionists and support feather-bedding, or look for ways the economy can benefit everyone? In other words, how many Accounting 101 textbooks does the world actually need?Jon.Aaron Walker wrote:> You might get one piece out of a writer for the sheer joy of writing, but after that, reality sets in. Uunless there is a way to feed themselves and/or a family, don't expect folks to aspire to writi
 ng for a living.> > As e-publishers AND mostly as e-readers, we can only pray that never happens.  






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