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We've give the e-book trend plenty of coverage, and, as we've stated before, there are still major hurdles in front of the emerging format. One of the highest is the absence of many notable books and authors from the e-book market, according to USA Today. There are many reasons why some books haven't yet made their ways to the Sony Reader or Kindle e-book devices -- contract negotiations, low royalty rates and simple skepticism of the format among them. But if publishers and those selling the electronic texts don't get some of these bigger names on board soon, the e-book may end up as little more than a niche product.
What notables are missing? Well, the entire 'Harry Potter' series, Joseph Heller's 'Catch 22,' J.D. Salinger's 'Catcher in the Rye,' Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders,' and Ray Bradbury's 'Fahrenheit 451,' just to name a few.
In some instances, so says USA Today, the estates of authors -- like that of playwright Tennessee Williams, for instance -- simply don't believe in the format and have written it off entirely. Others are holding out for more cash, claiming that, since e-books cost so little to produce and distribute, 25-percent is too low a royalty rate for the author to receive.
So what do you think? Will these authors be forced to relent as the e-book takes off? Or will they doom the format to become the Betamax of reading? [From: USA Today]
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Subscribe to commentsjbraderApr 29th 2009 3:49PM
Fahrenheit 451 not being available on e-bok is pretty damn ironic when you stop to think that one of the book's central themes is that it's not the format but what's written in it that's important.
MarkApr 29th 2009 5:41PM
Authors should never make less than 45% royalties. Period.
Warner YoungApr 29th 2009 6:19PM
This is kind of like the DRM/piracy issue, though. The problem with not releasing these titles *officially* in ebook format simply means that readers do it themselves. As I understand it, you can find all the Harry Potter books in electronic form now in torrents, so not releasing it in e-book form has lost Rowling and her publishers some sales.