Ebooks Announcement Discussion

[Brian James Freeman]

This is great news - so many good books that were hard to come by are going to be available to a lot of people now.

Brian, would it be okay for me to go ahead and talk about this on the blog? I know you haven't made an "official announcement" yet, but this seems pretty public.

Blu

Thanks! Please give us a couple more days to work out all of the kinks before you post if you can -- thanks!

Brian

[Brian James Freeman]

We have about 50 projects in total in the works with more deals being signed every day, so we'll see how many of them we can get out there this year. LOTS more good stuff to come...

Brian

[Dan Hocker]

Good news everyone! Apple's software has decided to work, so all of what you will be able to find on B&N and Amazon are now also on the iBook store, or will be once the transition time is over. You should see them all start to pop up over the next couple of days. I will let you know when they start appearing from my end.

[Antmusic]

Keeping my eye on the iBooks store now to see when they pop-up. Not there yet...

[Brian James Freeman]

Are many of you using the iBookstore for your iPad/iPhone, etc? We posted The Painted Darkness last year as a bit of an experiment and sales via Apple have lagged WAY behind Amazon and B&N:

http://bit.ly/ThePaintedDarknessiTunes

Brian

[Dan Hocker]

I have 3 more titles I will be uploading tomorrow. I think you guys will be very happy with them. One of them is a pretty big title.

[PaulB]

Are many of you using the iBookstore for your iPad/iPhone

http://bit.ly/ThePaintedDarknessiTunes

Brian

I am just starting to having only recently purchased my iPad. Given the restrictions with Amazon this is where I will be going to in the future. Your CD launch of ebooks could not have come at a better time!

[Dan Hocker]

I am just starting to having only recently purchased my iPad. Given the restrictions with Amazon this is where I will be going to in the future. Your CD launch of ebooks could not have come at a better time!

Just out of curiousness, which restrictions with amazon are you talking about?

[Antmusic]

I think he means because he is from Australia, Dan.

[Blu Gilliand]

Thanks! Please give us a couple more days to work out all of the kinks before you post if you can -- thanks!

Brian

I've got the post ready to go. How does Friday sound?

[PaulB]

Just out of curiousness, which restrictions with amazon are you talking about?

As Antmusic says, I am not able to buy ebooks form the amazon site without a US credit card and address. There is an Australian Amazon ebook site but the selection is much less.

[larryki]

So who is John R. Little? Are these unannounced book that CD is publishing?

[Dan Hocker]

So who is John R. Little? Are these unannounced book that CD is publishing?

No, these books have been published by a different press, but the ebook rights where sold to us. I believe 2 of them where published by Bad Moon Books and the other one was Necessary Evil Press. I don't remember which where published by whom though.

[Brian James Freeman]

Yeah, that's a good point -- just because we publish something as an eBook does not mean we'll ever be publishing a print edition. In fact, a lot of the 50 or so titles we've bought already for eBooks will not have a print edition from Cemetery Dance. Either someone else already did one or they are new works that will be published (right now) as an eBook exclusive from us, although there could always be a print edition down the road, of course!

Brian

[Antmusic]

RE: JOHN R. LITTLE
He is an author, and a darn good one at that. He has your emotions by the throat, and he isn't afraid to squeeze out some of your tears.

John R. Little's "Miranda" was a Bram Stoker Award winning book in their "Superior Acheivement in Long Fiction" catagory... HIGHLY Recommended! It also won the "Best Small Press Chill" from the Black Quill awards.

"little things" is a great short story collection. The physical book is about 350 pages long. ATTENTION: "Placeholders" is in the physical book of "little things" and it might be in this version... Dan, can you tell us if it is? I wish the amazon page would list all the titles in the ebook.