Spoilt milk
The publishing trend for changing texts to create cash cows is going to create a terrifyingly bland diet to feed into future culture, argues Piers Blofelds
Piers Blofelds
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SIDE OF THE DESK
One of the most banal but pernicious battles that I fight so regularly with publishers is with contract departments over the language used to describe ebook (and audio) rights. I know, exciting right? Bear with me, it gets more interesting I promise.
You see an ebook is not just an ebook. It can (in theory anyway) be enhanced. It is, in the publishers’ ideal, non-existent world, a little bundle of entertainment product which they would love to be able to spin off in all sorts of different directions and so be able to amend and trim and add all sorts of bells and whistles as they see fit.