John Grisham Flip-Flops on EBooks
Published March 16th, 2010 | 
John Grisham — bestselling author of legal thrillers.
John Grisham — household name.
John Grisham — hater of eBooks, who lamented in the past that eBooks would eventually kill his golden goose. On this, he has as much credibility as a vitamin salesman peddling the “best joint supplements” to the elderly.
Well, now Grisham has changed his tune somewhat with news that his publisher, Knopf-Doubleday, a division of Random House, is making his entire library of novels available as eBooks. Saying, “I’m probably going to be all right, but the aspiring writers are going to have a very hard time getting published.”
Yeah, John, guess what? It was already hard for aspiring writers to get published by the big mainstream publishers before the arrival of eBooks. The only difference now is that aspiring writers have an alternative to traditional publishing.
But, I do appreciate how far you’ve come in such a short time. Allowing your older books to be released in eBook formats is mighty big of you considering that just a year ago, you thought is would be the beginning of armageddon for the eBook market to grow. So, kudos to you, John Grisham. Maybe you can write a new thriller about your ordeal. Call it, The Publisher.
