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C. J. Cherryh, Jane Fancher and Lynn Abbey have made their own ebook store to sell readers copies of their out-of-print books read for ebooks. Here's the link: http://www.closed-circle.net/
This project is just beginning, but there are books ready to buy and download, and more on the way. They are doing all the work themselves, setting up the site, getting text and illustrations ready, figuring out how to make their books readable on a variety of formats and providing links to some basic reading software. I just bought "Faery Moon" - a version of Cherryh's "Faery in Shadow" that has been re-written to make it what she originally wanted it to be. Each author has a free book to download; you can use one to see that one of the available formats works for you, or to try out the ebook concept if you've never read one.
I'm using Stanza on a MacBookPro. It's an adequate reader - text appears in three columns, and the cover art, created by Jane Fancher, shows well.
Given the mess in commercial publishing now I think authors may start looking at ebooks as a way to get things out to readers and make some money for themselves. The three at Closed Circle will continue to work with commercial publishers who will put their books in print on paper, but backlist books are just not available. If this goes well all three may write books just for the ebook format. I know Cherryh has several series that have ceased because of publisher issues. She talks about this from time to time on her blog 'Wave Without A Shore'. There's a link on Closed Circle.
This project is just beginning, but there are books ready to buy and download, and more on the way. They are doing all the work themselves, setting up the site, getting text and illustrations ready, figuring out how to make their books readable on a variety of formats and providing links to some basic reading software. I just bought "Faery Moon" - a version of Cherryh's "Faery in Shadow" that has been re-written to make it what she originally wanted it to be. Each author has a free book to download; you can use one to see that one of the available formats works for you, or to try out the ebook concept if you've never read one.
I'm using Stanza on a MacBookPro. It's an adequate reader - text appears in three columns, and the cover art, created by Jane Fancher, shows well.
Given the mess in commercial publishing now I think authors may start looking at ebooks as a way to get things out to readers and make some money for themselves. The three at Closed Circle will continue to work with commercial publishers who will put their books in print on paper, but backlist books are just not available. If this goes well all three may write books just for the ebook format. I know Cherryh has several series that have ceased because of publisher issues. She talks about this from time to time on her blog 'Wave Without A Shore'. There's a link on Closed Circle.
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