Kindle Notes
I've been trying to enjoy my Kindle but the problem I've been having lately is that the more I read...the less there is to read.
My daughter and I are reading the Inkheart series. She finished the first book, handed it over to me while she started the second, but she's only halfway through the second and I'm ready for it now. So I wanted to download the books for my Kindle. Not possible. Not available (yet).
Infinite Jest - still not available.
A Janet Evanovich Between-the-Numbers Stephanie Plum mystery was available briefly for $22.98 (???? - it's like 100 pages!). Then the price dropped to $16.97. (Still too expensive - and it's not like the Stephanie Plum novels are getting better and better - Evanovich is clearly not that interested in writing them anymore.) Then the book dropped off the Kindle site altogether. Last night I found it again...for $9.99.
Jane Haddam's substantial backlist - most of it is still not available.
I'm sure much of it is a rights issue - when those contracts were negotiated, ebooks were not a hot ticket. Tracking down old contracts which are probably in off-site storge somewhere - how do you prioritize? how do you triage? how many subrights assistants and interns can you put on that task? - can't be easy, and then poring through each of them to discover which allow for "electronic rights" (always the first item we crossed off at Doubleday) is a hassle.
But it would be nice to know that this is on the radar. It would be nice to hear from publishers that they are doing this. I want to read. I just don't want to haul the books around, or pile them up in my apartment.
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