remove ebooks?

[DinosaurNothlit]

idk I mean tbh a pdf was how I read Twilight. And that certainly did nothing to deter its success.

Twilight's a bad example.  They did everything wrong, and yet nothing they did deterred its success.  So I have no idea what to make of that.

And I, too, am crossing my fingers and hoping that they edit the books for the re-release.  That will make this entire discussion completely moot, and will mean that we can leave the e-books up without fear of hurting sales.  Everybody wins!

I'm just paranoid that that won't be the case, and I want to stay prepared for every possibility.

I'm no longer so sure what we should do about that, though.  On the one hand, there may be current fans who would buy a re-release only if there were no e-books available instead, but on the other hand, there may be future fans who are enticed by the e-books into buying the real books.  Which of those two groups is bigger, is going to be the important question, here.  I've been arguing this whole time that it's the first group, but I'm beginning to wonder if we can really be so certain . . .

[anijen21]

Maybe I just have too much faith in the corporate system, but I see no reason to wait three years to do this unless they want to market them for a new generation, and to do that, yeah, you're going to have to update the books themselves. You could reprint the books as they are in a couple of months if you wanted to. I mean, magazines release a new mass-marketed publication each month, how hard can it be?

lol famous last words y/n?

[Serraph105]

idk I mean tbh a pdf was how I read Twilight. And that certainly did nothing to deter its success.

Twilight's a bad example.  They did everything wrong, and yet nothing they did deterred its success.  So I have no idea what to make of that.

And I, too, am crossing my fingers and hoping that they edit the books for the re-release.  That will make this entire discussion completely moot, and will mean that we can leave the e-books up without fear of hurting sales.  Everybody wins!

I'm just paranoid that that won't be the case, and I want to stay prepared for every possibility.

I'm no longer so sure what we should do about that, though.  On the one hand, there may be current fans who would buy a re-release only if there were no e-books available instead, but on the other hand, there may be future fans who are enticed by the e-books into buying the real books.  Which of those two groups is bigger, is going to be the important question, here.  I've been arguing this whole time that it's the first group, but I'm beginning to wonder if we can really be so certain . . .

just save them all to a flash drive and keep them on your key chain. seriously the whole set of e-books only takes up 33 mb.

[Dameg]

Serraph, we don't say it's hard to keep the ebooks, we're just talking about how to distribute them.

Anijen, I think you're right. They'll probably change something. Maybe change the details to make the story happens around 2012 and not around 2000. For example, when they talk about video games, they won't have Nintendo 64 but Wii And the Twin Towers don't appear, the famous actors/singers wouldn't be the same...

[AniDragon]

I think that regardless of what we do with the e-books, we should most definitely promote purchasing the rerelease on the e-books page, or maybe even in the e-books themselves. At the very least, we should include a link to where you can buy the re-realeased version of the book you're about to download.

One thing that would be wonderful if we could find a way to pull it off, and this would involve working with scholastic, would be maybe to have a way to donate TO Schlastic from RAF. That would most definitely show our support, especially if we could find a way to make sure they know that these donations are to encourage 2.0.

[Dameg]

Donations? lol We wouldn't go so far ^^'

[Darth Revan]

Remember, this is Richard's site. He decides whether or not they stay. You guys are thinking of compromises like you're the ones deciding the outcome.

Dameg,

I prefer to read the e-books rather than the hard copies, but I still want to own the hard copies so that they're like good back-ups if the power goes out, or if I have to travel.

Anijen/Goom,

I agree 100% No matter what we do, the e-books are on the internet, if they can't get it here, they'll get it elsewhere. We don't want them to get it elsewhere. If RAF had taken down the e-books before I found this site, I wouldn't be here.

My very first post ever was me signing up to help with the e-book project. Taking down the e-books would only repel people.

[Dameg]

Of course, we remember it's Richard's website so he'll decide at the end. It doesn't mean we can't give our opinions

[KOFSoldier]

Remember, this is Richard's site. He decides whether or not they stay. You guys are thinking of compromises like you're the ones deciding the outcome.

Dameg,

I prefer to read the e-books rather than the hard copies, but I still want to own the hard copies so that they're like good back-ups if the power goes out, or if I have to travel.

Anijen/Goom,

I agree 100% No matter what we do, the e-books are on the internet, if they can't get it here, they'll get it elsewhere. We don't want them to get it elsewhere. If RAF had taken down the e-books before I found this site, I wouldn't be here.

My very first post ever was me signing up to help with the e-book project. Taking down the e-books would only repel people.

I agree with you, to an extent.

If people want the ebooks bad enough, they will find them, but if we take them down from here (and maybe get Animorphs Fan Forums to take their's down), it would seriously deter them. I think a lot of people try to stay away from torrents, but I'm not sure, either way they instantly become 90% harder to find. Heck, the way I found this site was by googling Animorphs ebooks (this is the first thing that pops up).

On a, I guess, lighter note: I came home from college to visit my family only to discover that my mom had given over the majority of my Animorphs collection to my cousin (around roughly 20+ or so books). I called my auntie (his mother) to see about getting them back and she asked me that I let him hold onto them a little longer because it's the only thing she can get him to read. You see, my cousin is a sports/videogames kid so he doesn't ever read unless he had to, but he's actually (apparently) addicted to these books! I'm sure it doesn't seem like a big deal to you guys, but my family was certainly surprised to see him reading as opposed to watching a basketball game on Thanksgiving night. It reminded me of when I was younger, considering Animorphs is the whole reason I even began reading recreationally, so I let him have them.

Hope for the future?

[Dameg]

It's cute ^^ And yeah, there are hope for the future. I think Animorphs can still be liked by nowadays kids.
Just be careful he returns them back ^^' (and introduce him here!)

[KOFSoldier]

It's cute ^^ And yeah, there are hope for the future. I think Animorphs can still be liked by nowadays kids.
Just be careful he returns them back ^^' (and introduce him here!)

LOL, it's funny that you say that because he called this morning and asked if I had any more. I told my mom let him have them, hopefully he'll tell his friends...

[goom]

echoing my previous statement, i say just keep them on RAF, remove them if scholastic has a problem.
we'll have plenty of time to think about it when the books draw near.
there might not be a 2.0 anyways.

[Darth Revan]

[adamjared]

Ok I know I haven't said anything in this topic, But I vote to move the talk/argument/debate about the freeness of the Ebooks to a SEPARATE topic. Unless the eBooks are the Animorphs 2.0 that was originally brought up.

That way people know that an argument is happening. (i didn't know it was happening either).... just a suggestion.

[goom]

split as suggested.
(sorry if anybody's post was intended for the other thread, i moved them all after my own)