Likewise as a supporter of libraries in general I like to see my work available to them, and to their patrons, in every format, on release day. I know my own personal sales, ebook and otherwise, and they’re perfectly healthy. My personal, first-blush reaction was that I’m not in love with this new strategy. Now that I have looked it over, I will tell you what I think, but I ask you to read completely to the end, as I will attempt nuance, and we all know how that goes.
I’ve been traveling for the last few days and doing events so I haven’t been able to dedicate any real brain cycles to it until last night, when I got home for good. Here’s a full writeup on this from Publishers Weekly, if you are interested in more details.Īs I am a high-profile Tor author, people have been emailing me to ask what I think about the policy and/or to complain about it. Tor/Macmillan initially stated they’d seen some impact on retail sales because of ebook library lending, and is now participating in a study to dig deeper into the issue. So as an example, a book that’s released in August would be available to libraries in ebook form in November (print versions of the book will continue to be available on the official release date). Last week Tor Books announced that it would start windowing ebooks for libraries, which means that new ebook titles from Tor would now be available to libraries four months after their commercial release.
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