Flipping the Model

"He'll flip you. Flip you for real." -- Fenster

Right now, the typical model for book publishing goes like so:

Trade Cloth (aka hardcover) ➸ Trade Paper ➸ Mass Market Paperback ➸ Ebook

Keeping the ebook in last place is deceptive, because the truth is that ebook versions don’t really have a solid place in this hierarchy yet. Sometimes an ebook comes out before the hardcover, or with the hardcover, or with the trade, or later. There’s no rule. Also, unlike