RE: Re: B&N buys Fictionwise

I believe that anything that helps justify the existence of ebooks is 
a good thing. I have faces so much hatred from POD supporters because 
I recommend ebooks to upcoming poets so that they can build a 
platform and in the case of DNL sell multi-media CD at their readings 
that is not funny. To me it is a no brainer. For young upcoming poets 
and authors who have no platform and no real market yet still want to 
have their words read while attempting to make a few bucks so that 
they can eat a little bit better or put some gas in their car need 
ebooks. Blank paper is worth nothing and many publishers believe that 
the words of a poet are worth nothing because the writer's market 
tell us that poetry does not sell. Yet still POD'ers Feel that their 
product is the best and only way to go. So if the blank paper is 
worth nothing and the authors words are worth nothing the only thing 
that gives it value is their ink which many of them charge an arm and 
a leg for. I really don't get it! How is it that poetry does not sell 
when every song produced since the beginning of time has lyrics and 
lyrics are nothing more than poems put to music.

Tommy
Making the world a better place through poetry
http://www.wizzdom.net/BeatSt.htm

At 09:50 AM 3/9/2009, you wrote:


>I also don't think it's necessarily a bad thing.
>Will have to wait and see what they do.
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>Joan De La Haye
>Author of Shadows
><http://joandelahaye.wordpress.com/>http://joandelahaye.wordpress.com/
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>To: <mailto:ebook-community%40yahoogroups.com>[email protected]
>From: <mailto:robin.sullivan.dc%40gmail.com>[email protected]
>Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 07:31:24 -0400
>Subject: Re: [ebook-community] Re: B&N buys Fictionwise
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>I'm personally very excited about this - I think having a heavy weight in
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>the "traditional" print world will really throw more legitamacy to the
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>e-book world. I'm excited to see what happens.
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>On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Dana Hartsock 
><<mailto:d.hartsock%40mchsi.com>[email protected]> wrote:
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> > I don't know if this constitutes good news, or not?
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> > If B&N offers support and catalog without messing with the multi-format
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> > nature of Fictionwise too much it might be a winner. Must confess to
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> > harboring some initial skepticism.
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> > Dana
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> > "davidrothman" <davidrothman@...> wrote:
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> > > By Paul Biba -- Fictionwise acquired by Barnes & Noble 
> <http://is.gd/lUBI>http://is.gd/lUBI
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> > > Note: This is a TeleRead scoop as far as we know.
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> > > Meanwhile congrats to the Pendergrast brothers for doing their best to
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> > find a buyer who accepted their philosophy toward e-books.
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> > > David Rothman
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> > > Editor-Publisher, TeleRead.org
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> > > 703-370-6540
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