Eisler is joining a growing number of authors who are walking away from legacy publishers.
I prefer not to simply publish links to other people's content on this blog, but this warning from Amanda Hocking
But I did. I had to stop blogging until I'd got through a nasty job. It's done. I'm back. But
Lots of people got Kindles and Nooks and e-readers over Christmas this year. These lucky people also apparently decided it was too snowy to go out shopping between Christmas and New Year's, because instead they stayed home and purchased record numbers of e-books.
If I'm lucky enough to live my full lifespan, it could be that twenty years from now I will preside over the last meeting of the Crime Writers of Canada.
I'm not actually suggesting anything shady is going on here, because I don't want to be sued, but it does make me wonder when the needs of a newspaper's advertisers can be at odds with the content.
Amazon and Sony have crossed the line from e-book stores to publishers, although they're using a very old method to recruit want-to-be-authors: self-publishers, also known as vanity presses.
Not everyone who reads books keeps them. Those of us who do line our walls with books do so because we love books. We like looking at them; we like holding them. Some of us even enjoy dusting them.
"The e-book sales are astonishing," says Grisham. "Would anybody have thought that a year ago? The future has arrived, and we're looking at it."
The Crime Writers of Canada asked me for an article on e-books for their newsletter. The article I wrote above turned out to be very similar to one they'd published last month. Who knew? I'm not the first person to see this coming.