The last couple of years I wrote alot about the state of the publishing industry and how they would move and react to the growth of e-books. An article forwarded to me from a rather pedestrian associate of mine (here), kinda describes some of the machinations that we will most likely see from publishing houses in the very near future.
In her article New Service for Authors Seeking to Self-Publish E-Books, Julie Bosman writes:
"Bloomsbury, a publisher based in Britain, said on Wednesday it had created a new publishing arm that would release digital-only titles. Companies like Open Road Integrated Media have successfully published digital editions of backlist books whose rights were not held by a publisher."
This is a move that's similar to what you might find in Smashwords or other smaller e-book publishers. But they take it a step further by adding this:
"The new Perseus unit, called Argo Navis Author Services, will be available only to authors who are represented by an agency that has signed an agreement with Perseus. David Steinberger, the president and chief executive of the Perseus Books Group, said that the company had made an agreement with one major literary agency: Janklow & Nesbit Associates, whose authors include Ann Beattie, Anne Rice and Diane Johnson. Curtis Brown Ltd., which represents Karen Armstrong and Jim Collins, is also close to signing an agreement to make Argo Navis available to their authors. Perseus is in discussions with more than a dozen other agencies."
Savvy move. It will produce a whole new industry, the e-publishing industry. Remainders will be a thing of the past in the e-world, as they'll just be re-released in e-format. For a non-author like myself its certainly not a game changer, but it does provide a model for what we will see more of in the future.
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