A Plea To Publishers
Make your Kindle versions of books available at the same time as the print version. Pretty please?
I was extremely excited to see that Lewis Black had a new book coming out (titled Me of Little Faith). He is one of my top five favorite comedians, and I enjoyed his last book, Nothing’s Sacred. Naturally, once the book came out I searched for it in the Kindle Store. Unfortunately it wasn’t available.
I assumed that the publisher wasn’t going to make it available, and the next time I was in Barnes & Noble I paid the full retail price of $24.99 (minus my 10% B&N Member discount, of course). I didn’t mind paying that amount because I enjoy Lewis Black’s stand-up comedy and I knew I would enjoy the book.
Just a few short days after I finished reading the book, however, I spotted it in my Recommended For You section on my Amazon.com home page…in a Kindle edition. I was disappointed, because I would have liked to have read it on the Kindle (especially for the $9.99 price).
The moral of this story is that had the publisher made the book available in Kindle form at the same time as the print version, I would have bought the Kindle edition. I would think this would be beneficial to publishers thanks to the extremely low cost of production compared to the print version.
Lewis Black’s publishers aren’t the only ones. The highly anticipated Stephenie Meyer novel Breaking Dawn
