Comments on: How many SF/F books are published in a year

By: Jo

Jo — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:30:00 +0000

Of course I have been reading e-books way before the Kindle came out. I read them on my Palm and certainly wouldn’t have liked to shell out the cost of the kindle on a one use item. I carry about 4 books on my Palm, sometimes more, plus games, addresses, calendar, pictures, etc. etc. etc. As far as I am aware the Kindle is only a reader.

By: Glenda Larke

Glenda Larke — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:24:00 +0000

I remember a time when SF was equated with poor writing skills across the board. Fantasy, however, was thought to belong to children and could be well written. You grew out of it – or were supposed to – when you got older.

There will be more SFF/F published if more people buy it. If people buy secondhand or don’t buy at all, then what’s the point in producing more books if you are a publisher? It’s all supply and demand. With E-publishing, costs go down and we could hope that as a result, more books will be sold – but it doesn’t necessarily follow…

By: Satima Flavell

Satima Flavell — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:12:00 +0000

400-odd fantasy books in one year – no wonder I can’t keep up with my reading! Yet there must be thousands of others, some of them just as good, that languish in drawers because they can’t find a home with a publisher. One thing e-publishing has done is to give a voice to some of those.

I think that as e-publishing becomes more accepted, there will be more books than ever published -and hopefully, the standard of e-publishing wil rise and the price of readers like Kindle will come down. But how the heck are we going to keep up with the volume?:-)

By: Jo

Jo — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:08:00 +0000

I remember a time when reading Fantasy was very much looked down upon. Sci Fi was generally accepted, but not Fantasy. It took me years to pick up my first fantasy book and now I am well and truly hooked into the genre.

Not to mention that, at my age, I can read what the hell I like without worrying whether anyone else approves LOL