Comments on: Independent Publishing Group Acts to Halt Online Sales of ARCs and Galleys

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| onlinesalesbooks.info — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:12:50 +0000

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| onlinesalesbooks.info — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:00:03 +0000

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| onlinesalesbooks.info — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 02:41:43 +0000

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By: Leah

Leah — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:04:40 +0000

We’ve found that it’s mostly reviewers (except Jane, of course) who are reluctant to receive the eARCs. On our whole promo list, there are maybe a handful who will take ARCs electronically. Believe me, we would love to eliminate the costs of printing and mailing!

By: Janet

Janet — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:08:40 +0000

To me the most interesting thing about the original article was the PMA’s admission that ARC recipients have a legal right to sell them.

By: Jane

Jane — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:29:16 +0000

Yep, but there is technology that can prevent that. Harpercollins did an early preview for the media of Victoria Alexander’s exclusive “e” material and you had to email the publicist to get a download code. While I am not in love with the reader that Harper Collins uses, there seems to be some kind of software that could be tracked. I.e., a special Mobi pocket PID or something like that.

Libraries have some system, obviously, that renders your book unreadable after a certain period of time and maybe that is what publishers do. I think that there are alot of resources available out there that could be implemented on an “e” level to reduce some of the piracy concerns and reduce costs.

By: Angela James

Angela James — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:57:27 +0000

I know we discussed this, about moving ARCs to ebooks, but I wonder if one fear is that doing that will make sharing of ARCs too easy in ebook format.