Greetings everyone,
whilst browsing for FPW ebooks for my kindle a few days ago I stumbled upon a suspiciously cheap version of Cold City (only $ 3,46) published by "Wilsongs" and upon further investigation cheap versions of pretty much every other book by FPW (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_i_1?rh...1355839901). The books have rather cheesy, cheap looking covers for the most part, but seem to contain the genuine texts. As I cannot imagine Tor being okay with FPW self-publishing "Cold City" on Amazon for $ 3,46 I assume that this is some kind of fraud, even though some of the titles by Wilsongs look like the ones FPW has actually self-published (Quick Fixes etc).
If anybody could shed some light on this matter for me, I'd be very grateful.
Kind regards,
David Rain
PS: I have already written an e-mail to FPW about this a few days ago, but as I haven't received an answer, I thought I'd post it here.
whilst browsing for FPW ebooks for my kindle a few days ago I stumbled upon a suspiciously cheap version of Cold City (only $ 3,46) published by "Wilsongs" and upon further investigation cheap versions of pretty much every other book by FPW (http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_i_1?rh...1355839901). The books have rather cheesy, cheap looking covers for the most part, but seem to contain the genuine texts. As I cannot imagine Tor being okay with FPW self-publishing "Cold City" on Amazon for $ 3,46 I assume that this is some kind of fraud, even though some of the titles by Wilsongs look like the ones FPW has actually self-published (Quick Fixes etc).
If anybody could shed some light on this matter for me, I'd be very grateful.
Kind regards,
David Rain
PS: I have already written an e-mail to FPW about this a few days ago, but as I haven't received an answer, I thought I'd post it here.
I looked on Amazon using the info you put (without clicking on the link) and nothing by Wilsongs comes up at all. Is this US Amazon or UK? I'm also curious about your wording of the price. $3,46 is no how US dollars are noted.
Mr Wilson has replied to my email in the time it took for my post to clear and told me, that it actually is legitimate and he has personally set the price.
Mr Wilson and/or his agent must have negotiated a mean contract to be able to self-publish e-book-versions of his current books at the same time that his publisher offers them for almost 4 times the price.
Anyways, I just bought "Cold City" and the revised version of "Nightworld" for absolute bargain prices (the TOR prices were a bit too steep for my budget and my liking).
Kind regards,
David
Mr Wilson and/or his agent must have negotiated a mean contract to be able to self-publish e-book-versions of his current books at the same time that his publisher offers them for almost 4 times the price.
Anyways, I just bought "Cold City" and the revised version of "Nightworld" for absolute bargain prices (the TOR prices were a bit too steep for my budget and my liking).
Kind regards,
David
It looks like Amazon - UK. The Amazon UK kindle version is priced at 1.93 Pounds. My guess is that "The Man" retained the digital rights to non-US markets and can sell them in the UK and elsewhere at the price he chooses, rather than at the price set for the US release. Also, the "," notation is british (the , is used like the decimal point).
jerrund Wrote:My guess is that "The Man" retained the digital rights to non-US markets and can sell them in the UK and elsewhere at the price he chooses, rather than at the price set for the US release.
Indeed. Mr Wilson has further clarified, that TOR only holds the US & Canadian rights for the e-book version. Strange thing is, that amazon.de (where I have my account) offers both versions - one for € 13,32 the other for € 2,68. You can see why I suspected something fishy going on.
Kind regards,
David
jerrund Wrote:Also, the "," notation is british (the , is used like the decimal point).No, we use the decimal like the US, it is mainland Europe that uses the "," as a decimal point.
Yeah, I use Wilsongs when I put something up myself. I keep the price low in foreign markets because I don't expect many sales of the English language editions there, but I want them available worldwide.
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