In a message dated 1/30/2005 4:46:21 PM Mountain Standard Time,
gbnewby@pglaf.org writes:
Evidently, the mainstream publishers are not putting
their
mainstream works onto the Fictionwise site - maybe
they're
elsewhere. My strong suspicion is that many the works
on
the Fictionwise site are those that are owned by authors,
not
publishers. So, right now, this device doesn't replace
bn.com or
whatever for my reading of contemporary works.
There is a lot of new stuff at FictionWise. It's in RB format and
can be dumped straight into the ebook. Probably most of
the stuff on the sites is older and the author has gotten
copyright revision, but more and more publishers are
getting the idea and putting new works up. For example,
THE DA VINCI CODE went up on FictionWise about the
same time it was released in hardback. Its success in
eformat has certainly caught the eyes of other mainstream
publishers.
It's a good beginning, but it IS a beginning.
Anne