The Biblio File Excerpt: Connor Cochran, Peter S. Beagle, Diane Duane on e-books
As part of my on-line talk show, The Biblio File. I recently recorded a 3 hour 46 minute interview with Hugo-winning novelist Peter S. Beagle and publisher Connor Cochran, joined partway through by novelist Diane Duane. At one point, the conversation turned to e-books. Here is an excerpt of part of that conversation.
To listen to the interview in its entirety, please visit The Biblio File.
January 25th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
It seems a little ironic that Mr. Cochran is objecting to ebook versions because of a pirated Spanish copy of a book. That book wasn’t even put out in ebook format.
January 25th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
Actually, Janice, it was put out as an e-book–illegally, by a Spanish publisher named Umbriel. That was part of the point I was making, because we only recently found out about the illegal Spanish e-book (five years after it went into distribution) because this one overzealous blogger went and posted the entire stolen text on his blog site.
I am very interested in e-books. I’m also very concerned with making sure that Peter earns money off his work. He has been ripped off too many times over the years.