And in yet another part of the forest...
Wednesday, May 10th, 2006 07:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniEmbiid Publishing is throwing in the towel, according to owner-operator Richard Michaels, posting in the company's official sff.net newsgroup. The store will close at the end of May, though they will be maintaining the bookshelves of current customers until the end of the year.
This is sad news. Embiid has been the publisher of the electronic editions of our books and stories for, um -- a long time. Years. Richard and Melisa are good people; Embiid looked to have a decent business model. We aren't, I expect, the only people who are going to miss them. Argh.
The tasks of the day included doing the gym thing, picking up the reprints from the printer, hitting the mailbox -- nope, no check -- and returning home to a picnic lunch with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kinzel, thence some SRM chores and a wee bit of writing -- today's project was shuffling the last two boring, repetitious "chapters" in one action-packed, exciting chapter. Much better now.
Trying to get up the nerve to throw away the ancient typeset -- on an actual typesetting machine -- short story collection from back easily twenty years. Included in the pile are a file card with the instructions, inkinzel's own fair hand: Sharon: Copy blocks should be 4 3/8 x 7 inches, except first block should be 4/38 x 5 (approximately) -- illustrated with a sketch delineating which side was 4 3/8 and which 7. Then notes on the notes, in my hand: down 10 lines (21 lines - 1st) 133 82 51 space line 42 PE Also? There's a carbon copy of an old story -- blue ink on yellow tissue, held together with a paper clip tarnished purple.
Absolutely need to throw this stuff out -- but, wait! I can feel the type on the back of the pages...
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This is sad news. Embiid has been the publisher of the electronic editions of our books and stories for, um -- a long time. Years. Richard and Melisa are good people; Embiid looked to have a decent business model. We aren't, I expect, the only people who are going to miss them. Argh.
The tasks of the day included doing the gym thing, picking up the reprints from the printer, hitting the mailbox -- nope, no check -- and returning home to a picnic lunch with
kinzel, thence some SRM chores and a wee bit of writing -- today's project was shuffling the last two boring, repetitious "chapters" in one action-packed, exciting chapter. Much better now.Trying to get up the nerve to throw away the ancient typeset -- on an actual typesetting machine -- short story collection from back easily twenty years. Included in the pile are a file card with the instructions, in
kinzel's own fair hand: Sharon: Copy blocks should be 4 3/8 x 7 inches, except first block should be 4/38 x 5 (approximately) -- illustrated with a sketch delineating which side was 4 3/8 and which 7. Then notes on the notes, in my hand: down 10 lines (21 lines - 1st) 133 82 51 space line 42 PE Also? There's a carbon copy of an old story -- blue ink on yellow tissue, held together with a paper clip tarnished purple.Absolutely need to throw this stuff out -- but, wait! I can feel the type on the back of the pages...
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Date: 2006-05-10 05:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-10 06:15 pm (UTC)What I have read (and very much enjoyed) of your work has been purchased from Embiid.
Sigh.
Date: 2006-05-10 07:00 pm (UTC)Fictionwise or Baen if you are no longer committed to DRM of some sort. Ereader in preference to Mobipocket if you are not, although I believe you can also do secure editions all formats through Fictionwise and I think you have a large enough catalog to be attractive to them.
I'm sad to say this is exactly why I don't like DRM, and I hope you will consider a non-DRM form. Yes I can preserve my DRMs and copies for Palm and Windows at the moment, but there is no guarantee that newer versions of either OS will run the embiid reader already, and to some extent that is already true on the Palm -- there's nothing that supportsthe Embiid DRM and the 320x480 full screen format of the T3/T5/TX and Lifedrive.
But I am really sorry to hear this.
Re: Sigh.
Date: 2006-05-10 09:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-14 01:44 pm (UTC)