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The Kindle edition of The Black Pear by Alan Porter (currently a free download).

ACHUKA read an interesting post about ebook publishing this morning on a mailing group, and we have the author’s agreement to quote from what he said in the context of recent discussions about ebook publishing:

My upcoming book (an adult novel) is being published only as an ebook, with no possibility of a print edition until at least the end of 2015, if then. It gives me (and my publisher) an instant, controllable, global market with little or no interference from middle-men. Marketting can be targeted directly at the readers making it more efficient and, hopefully, effective.

Is this the state of the industry? Are the mega-publishers now such closed-shops that we don’t even bother trying to work with them? Are they simply going to recede into irrelevance as hollowed-out husks with their illiterate memoirs and their half-price cookbooks?

And book selling… is it because the bookshop chains (is that even still a plural in the UK?) are so impossible to work with that we all now choose to sell direct to our customers - be they in schools, on Amazon or as ebook readers through iBookstore, Smashwords or whatever?

I think this is an absolutely fascinating change. And a good one. Writing is finally becoming truly democratised. It’s a lot of hard work, but it’s also got a lot of reward.

Porter’s adult novel, Firestorm, will be available from the end of March.

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