It all depends on how you define success. Some e-book publishers are trying to make money directly; it's unclear at this point whether they'll succeed. Others, like Baen, are using e-books to promote regular books; that looks to be very successful.
For a parallel, I publish
Strange Horizons, one of the very few online prozines in sf/f. We're not even trying to make a profit -- we're a nonprofit organization, using a museum model for our business plan. We expect to be very successful -- in our own terms. And in the process, there's a good chance that we'll be cutting into the print sales of publications like Asimov's and Analog.
It's going to be very interesting, seeing what the e-book publishers do to the print publishers, in the next five years.
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It all depends on how you define success. Some e-book publishers are trying to make money directly; it's unclear at this point whether they'll succeed. Others, like Baen, are using e-books to promote regular books; that looks to be very successful.
For a parallel, I publish Strange Horizons, one of the very few online prozines in sf/f. We're not even trying to make a profit -- we're a nonprofit organization, using a museum model for our business plan. We expect to be very successful -- in our own terms. And in the process, there's a good chance that we'll be cutting into the print sales of publications like Asimov's and Analog.
It's going to be very interesting, seeing what the e-book publishers do to the print publishers, in the next five years.
- Mary Anne