Comments on: Agent Nat Sobel Challenges Publishers to Hold Back E-Reprints http://ereads.com/2009/12/agent-nat-sobel-challenges-publishers.html Read the latest publishing news and provocative blogs by top commentators in the traditional and digital publishing fields. Mon, 21 May 2012 03:15:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Lisa Grace http://ereads.com/2009/12/agent-nat-sobel-challenges-publishers.html/comment-page-1#comment-5752 Lisa Grace Fri, 27 May 2011 04:33:20 +0000 http://ereadsdev.com/?p=1134#comment-5752 I waited over a year after the hardcover came out through Strategic Publishing before I released the ebook version of Angel in the Shadows, Book 1." I'm now selling it for 99 cents on Amazon and promoting a free iPad 2 giveaway once it reaches 10,000 downloads. Hardcovers are still selling. Many customers who buy ebooks also want the hardcovers of their favorites. There's just "something wonderful" about holding a book in your hands. I don't see the two as competing but complimenting. Libraries aren't the demise of booksellers and i don't think ebooks are the demise of hardcovers. I waited over a year after the hardcover came out through Strategic Publishing before I released the ebook version of Angel in the Shadows, Book 1.”

I’m now selling it for 99 cents on Amazon and promoting a free iPad 2 giveaway once it reaches 10,000 downloads.

Hardcovers are still selling. Many customers who buy ebooks also want the hardcovers of their favorites. There’s just “something wonderful” about holding a book in your hands. I don’t see the two as competing but complimenting.

Libraries aren’t the demise of booksellers and i don’t think ebooks are the demise of hardcovers.

]]> By: c maltby http://ereads.com/2009/12/agent-nat-sobel-challenges-publishers.html/comment-page-1#comment-4556 c maltby Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:58:49 +0000 http://ereadsdev.com/?p=1134#comment-4556 The people that want to buy the hardcover books for their personal libraries are still going to by them. Those of us that buy paper backs, or e-books should not have to wait just so some greedy people might make a little bit more money. The people that want to buy the hardcover books for their personal libraries are still going to by them. Those of us that buy paper backs, or e-books should not have to wait just so some greedy people might make a little bit more money.

]]> By: A. R. Braun http://ereads.com/2009/12/agent-nat-sobel-challenges-publishers.html/comment-page-1#comment-589 A. R. Braun Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:19:51 +0000 http://ereadsdev.com/?p=1134#comment-589 If Mr. Sobel fights technology, he will lose. That's like fighting for cassettes and eight tracks when CDs came out. As an author about to finish his first novel, I would prefer that readers buy the hardcover instead of the cheap version, but I don't want them bullied into it. Besides, e-books save paper and are "green friendly." If Mr. Sobel fights technology, he will lose. That's like fighting for cassettes and eight tracks when CDs came out. As an author about to finish his first novel, I would prefer that readers buy the hardcover instead of the cheap version, but I don't want them bullied into it. Besides, e-books save paper and are "green friendly."

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