The Digital Shift reports that Book View Cafe, an eBook publisher/author collective with more than 40 author members, is offering libraries a 45% discount on its entire catalog, which brings the average price of its
eBooks to libraries under $3.00. Authors distributing titles through
Book View Cafe include "Hugo and Nebula award winners such as
Ursula K.
Le Guin,
Vonda N. McIntyre,
David D. Levine, and
Linda Nagata, as well
as
New York Times bestsellers and notable authors
Patricia Rice,
Maya
Kaathryn Bohnhoff,
Lois Gresh, and
Sarah Zettel." In addition to selling
direct, Book View Cafe distributes through Smashwords to supply Baker &
Taylor's Axis 360 library service, and is in talks with other
distributors, including
OverDrive.
Book View Cafe's titles are distributed in EPUB, MOBI and (in some
cases) PDF format, and are sold without
Digital Rights Management. Most of the titles appear
to be reprints where rights have reverted to the authors, along with
some new titles. Authors get 95% of the sale price for titles sold
through the Book View Cafe website.
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