Jan 12 2009
The big news of the day is Dorchester is going digital. According to the press release, by summer Dorchester will do simultaneous releases of its book in print and digital format for all of its new titles, but expect to see titles as early as April in multiple DRM formats. You can read more about the partnership at editor Leah Hultenschmidt’s blog.
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Jan 12, 2009 @ 17:54:55
YAY!!!!!! Finally!
Jan 12, 2009 @ 18:05:58
That’s good news !
Jan 12, 2009 @ 18:47:56
DRM. Wheee.
Jan 12, 2009 @ 19:03:19
I can live with the DRM–one of my all-time favorite guilty pleasure books was reprinted by Dorchester late last year and I’d only seen it available for the Kindle. Soon it will be available in another format I can get, so there’s definitely some happy Snoopy dancing going on here! And I haven’t even checked to see if anything else I might want will be digitalized. :)
Jan 12, 2009 @ 19:29:44
Actually, I don’t think this deal is good news for consumers. They are using the same company that’s doing those awful read online things for Harper Collins like for the Bujold title you mentioned yesterday and I didn’t notice anything about the pricing they will implement, but the DRM is going to cost a bundle and I’m sure they’ll send that on to consumers.
I’m all for more books being available in e-form, but not if it means DRM.
Jan 12, 2009 @ 19:51:33
That’s good news, but I hope they rethink using DRM.
Jan 12, 2009 @ 20:07:37
Current Amazon prices for Kindle/Dorchester are 4.79 to $6.79. Original prices run from $5.99 to 7.99.
I read somewhere that the publishers have let Amazon set the price like music companies let iPod set the price (it’s supposed to be a Bad Thing), but frankly I’d rather have this than the eBooks cost more than a hardcopy. Of course ebooks from epublishers also end up being discounted by Amazon which doesn’t seem quite fair when the price is low to start with. They discount from the ebook price of course not the POD cost.